What is Propylene carbonate
It is a biodegradable aliphatic polycarbonate derived from carbon dioxide and propylene oxide. It has a rather low glass transition temperature and becomes brittle at low temperature.
What is it for?
It is effective as a cleaner on hard surfaces, resins, glass fibers and polyurethanes.
It can be used as an intermediate reagent in the formation of carbamate, transesterification.
An alternative low toxicity solvent (propylene carbonate; PC) proposed for the preparation of poly(lactic-co-glycolic-acid) microparticles (1).
Block polymer for drug delivery (2).
Molecular Formula : C4H6O3
Molecular Weight : 102.089 g/mol
CAS : 108-32-7
Synonyms :
- Carbonic acid, cyclic propylene ether
- 4-Methyl-2-oxo-1,3-dioxolane
- 1,3-Dioxolan-2-one, 4-methyl-
- Cyclic propylene carbonate
- 4-Methyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-one
- 1,2-Propylene carbonate
- 1,2-Propanediol cyclic carbonate
- 1-Methylethylene carbonate
- Cyclic 1,2-propylene carbonate
- Dipropylene carbonate
- EINECS 203-572-1
References__________________
(1) Microparticle preparation by a propylene carbonate emulsification-extraction method.
Grizić D, Lamprecht A.
Int J Pharm. 2018 Jun 10;544(1):213-221. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2018.03.062. Epub 2018 Apr 6.
(2) Synthesis and characterization of amphiphilic block polymer poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(propylene carbonate)-poly(ethylene glycol) for drug delivery.
Li H, Niu Y.
Mater Sci Eng C Mater Biol Appl. 2018 Aug 1;89:160-165. doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2018.04.002. Epub 2018 Apr 5.
