Description of Product
1. Chemical Name: 4-Chloro-3, 5-m-Xylenol
Cifa Name: Chloroxylenol
Synonym: 3.5-dimethyl-4- Chloroxylenol, 4-chiloro-3,5-dimethilphenol, PCMX
2. CAS No. : 88-04-0
3. Molecular Formula: C8H9ClO
4. Molecu; ar Weight: 156.5
5. Structure Formula:
6. Specification:
Appearance: white or off-white crystal
Purity: ≥ 98.5%
Sulfate Ash: 1% max
Fe: 100ppm max
Cu: 100ppm max
Water: 0.2% max
Melting Poit: 114-116℃
Impurity: 1.5% max
Tetrachloroethylene: 0.25% max
7. Feature:
(1) Antibacterical activity: High efficient against versus fungi, gram positive, gram negative bacteria and some viruses.
(2) Stability: PCMX is stable under normal sotorage conditions.
(3) Solubility: 0.03% weight/ volume in water at 20℃; 50% weight/ volume in ethanol at 20℃
(4) Safety: acute oral dose LD50≥ 3g/ kg (white mouse test); Acute dose LD50≥ 2g/k (white mouse test)
Appliance
1. Appliance Fields:
(1) For Hospital and common medical use:
In order to avoid cross-infection, PCMX can be used in skin disinfectant before operation, sterilization of medical equipments, daily clean of equipments and hard surface. It can alsobe used to make medical antibacterial soap, disinfectant used to treat athlete’ s foot, and common first aid drugs. The formulation of PCMX can be liquid, powder and cream, and son on.
(2) For household and daily antibacterial:
It can be used as disinfectant for skin wound, or household establishments; it also can be used in personal care products, such as hand sanitizer.
(3) For Industry:
Coating surface: It can be added into the paint and coating as anti-fungi agent, which is suitable for the wet condition;
Leather treatment: to prevent against attack of bacteria and fungi and mildew (especially salted leather and fur, plant leather and salted or dried animal furs)
Textiles finishing treatment: pre-immersion of fiber.
2. Quantity of using: from 0.2% to 5.0%
3. Method of using: firstly, dissolving PCMX in alcohol, benzene, ether or other solvents, then, mixed with other components, some anion or nonionic surfactant can dissolve PCMX completely without generate any associate groups.