ACN Acetonitrile HPLC CAS 75-05-8

The main use of acetonitrile is as a solvent. For example, as a solvent for extracting butadiene, a solvent for synthetic fibers and a solvent for some special coatings. A solvent used in the petroleum industry to remove tar, phenols, etc., from petroleum hydrocarbons. In the oil industry, it is used as a solvent to extract fatty acids from vegetable oil, and in medicine as a reaction medium for recrystallization of steroid drugs. A binary azeotrope of acetonitrile and water is often used when...