Common properties of glycol

The physical properties of finish removers vary considerably due to the diverse uses and requirements of the removers. Finish removers can be grouped by the principal ingredient of the formula, method of appHcation, method of removal, chemical base, viscosity, or hazardous classification. Except for method of apphcation, a paint remover formulation usually has one aspect of each group, by which it can be used for one or more appHcations. A Hst of the most common organic solvents used in finish removers has been compiled (3). Many are mentioned throughout this article others include ethyl lactate [97-64-3] propylene carbonate [108-32-7] furfural alcohol [98-01-1/, dimethyl formamide [68-12-2] tetrahydrofuran [109-99-9] methyl amyl ketone [110-43-0] dipropylene glycol methyl ether [34590-94-8] and Exxate 600, a trade name of Exxon Chemicals. 

Salts and Derivatives. Generally the vitamers are high melting crystalline soHds that are very soluble in water and insoluble in most other solvents. Properties of the common forms are Hsted in Table 1. The only commercially important form of vitamin B is pytidoxine hydrochloride (7). This odorless crystalline soHd is composed of colorless platelets melting at 204—206°C (with decomposition). In bulk, it appears white and has a density of - 0.4 kg/L. It is very soluble in water (ca 0.22 kg/L at 20°C), soluble in propylene glycol, slightly soluble in acetone and alcohol (ca 0.014 kg/L), and insoluble in most lipophilic solvents. A 10% water solution shows a pH of 3.2. Both the hydrochloride and corresponding free base sublime without decomposition (16). 

Although less common than zinc chlorides, there has been much synthetic and structural work carried out on zinc bromide and iodide complexes. For example, the 1 1 adduct of N,N,N, A -tetramethyl-o-phenylenediamine with zinc bromide has been structurally characterized.630 The ion exchange properties of zinc bromide and iodide have been studied in ethylene glycol.631 The electrolytic behavior of zinc bromide in propylene carbonate has been studied and the conductance data shows the existence of dimers.632... 

These reactions are real tautomerization reactions, but the quite common water elimination reactions can also completely change the redox property of a radical. A case in point is the radical derived from ethylene glycol which is a reducing a-hydroxyalkyl radical which is transformed by water elimination into the fomylmethyl radical (see below) whose oxidizing property has been discussed above [reaction (20)]. Similarly, the phenol OH-adduct is a reason-... 

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