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CAS Number : 121325-67-5
EC Number : 204-436-4
Chemical formula : C3H6N2O.1/2H2O
Molecular Weight : 146.14
The Ethylene Urea - also known as 2-Imidazolidinone hemihydrate – is mainly used in various kinds of formaldehyde removing formulations such as high-effect formaldehyde removing detergents and long-term formaldehyde dissolution intermediates.
In the flavor and fragrance industry the product is used as a release control agent.
The pharma industry is using the product as an intermediate for antibiotics such as Mezlocillin and Azlocillin.
Main users are the leather, rubber, fragrance and textile coating industry.
Applications of Ethylene Urea
-Textile auxiliaries
-Fragrance
-Pharma
Ethylene Urea is an organic compound derived from formaldehyde and urea.
Ethylene Urea is a colourless solid that is used for treating cellulose-based heavy fabrics to inhibit wrinkle formation.
Ethylene Urea bonds with the hydroxyl groups present in long cellulose chains and prevents the formation hydrogen bonding between the chains, the primary cause of wrinkling.
This treatment produces permanently wrinkle-resistant fabrics and is different from the effects achieved from using fabric softeners.
Ethylene Urea is an organic intermediate used in various chemical industries.
Ethylene Urea was originally used for the production of dimethylol ethylene urea thermosetting resins in textiles and paper.
Ethylene Urea is also used as a scavenging agent to reduce the free formaldehyde in phenolic, melamine, glyoxal and urea formaldehyde resin systems for the coatings, construction and textile industries.
Application of Ethylene Urea:
Ethylene Urea can be very affective at scavenging formaldehyde in various resin systems.
Reduction of 75% can be achieved depending on application conditions and the resin system properties.
We recommend using Ethylene Urea in most applications.
The exact amount needed would depend on many variables, but laboratory experimentation should be performed to establish optimized dosage.
Applications of Ethylene Urea:
1. Textile industry
Cotton products are composed by long chain cellulose, which contains lots of hydroxyls to form spacious hydrogen bonds.
These hydrogen bonds will be broken and then randomly reformed under the heat or external forces.
That’s how the fabric folds come.
Ethylene Urea reacts with hydroxyl groups when treating fabrics together with formaldehyde, forming a stable structure to prevent the folds from forming.
This method can also restain the pungent odor caused from using formaldehyde only as the anti-wrinkle treatment by effectively inhibiting the release of formaldehyde.
Besides, Ethylene Urea is another widely used textile finishing agent.
Its residues on fabrics slowly release formaldehyde, which can be effectively inhibited by Ethylene Urea.
2. Coating and Paint
Ethylene Urea can be used as de-aldehyde agent in poly-EVA, all kinds of water-based coatings, paints, pigments, adhesives and paper industry.
Ethylene Urea can also be added to the paint alone to make the paint absorbing and decomposing formaldehyde.
3. Ink for inkjet printers
Ethylene Urea is an important additives of ink for inkjets.
Ethylene Urea can disperse the pigment, lubricate the channels, prevent nozzles from drying out and blocking, and imporve the storage stability of ink.
Ethylene Urea can also imporve the color contrast to enhance the printing effect.
4. Adhesive
Various types of artificial panels such as plywood, chipboard, fiberboard and composite panels, usually choose urea resin, phenolic resin or melamine resin as adhesives.
Those adhesives are produced from polycondensation between formaldehyde and urea, phenol or melamine respectively.
All of them have the problem of slowly releasing gaseous formaldehyde into the environment.
Ethylene Urea can be added to effectively reduce the formaldehyde release and does not affect the bonding effect.
5. Daily Chemical
Ethylene Urea is the main composition of household de-aldehyde agent.
Ethylene Urea can be used as high-performance formaldehyde remover, home air formaldehyde potent enzyme, formaldehyde long-acting melting medium, aldehyde remover for glue, photocatalyst, floor deodorization care wax, furniture deodorizer, car deodorizer, etc.
6. Organic Synthesis
Ethylene Urea can be used as intermediates of many new antibiotics, such as meloxicillin and aloxicillin, as intermediates for anti-schistosomiasis drugs, and as basic raw materials of third-generation penicillin.
In the biological field, Ethylene Urea can be used to produce the plant growth regulators, fungicides, inhibitors, herbicides, etc., such as: N-chlorocarbonyl-2-imidazolidinone, 1-chlorocarbonyl-3-acetyl-2-imidazolidinone, 1-chlorocarbonyl-3-methanesulfonyl-2-imidazolidinone N-chloroformyl-2-imidazolidinone, 1-chloroformyl-3-acetyl-2-imidazolidinone, 1-chloroformyl-3-methanesulfonyl-2-imidazolidinone, N-hydroxyethyl-2-imidazolidinone, 1-methanesulfonyl-2-imidazolidinone, 1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone, 1-acetyl-2-imidazolidinone, etc.
Ethylene Urea is a low-formaldehyde type of textile resin for "wash and wear" colored and white fabrics and shirtings, Viscose and mixtures with synthetic materials.
Further research may identify additional product or industrial usages of this chemical.
Ethylene Urea is mainly used in various kinds of formaldehyde removing reagent eg.
For resinous product, high effect formaldehyde removing detergent, long-term formaldehyde dissolution intermediate, formaldehyde removing for , leather, rubber, textile coating, and photocatolyst etc, In addition, Ethylene Urea can be used in textile anti – crease finish, anti tearing finish.
Ethylene Urea is used in a wide variety of ways in process technology.
Ethylene Urea is of importance as an intermediate for, inter alia, the pharmaceuticals industry.
Ethylene urea is also used in the production of plasticizers, surface coatings, polymers and also textile and leather auxiliaries.
Processing is, depending on the field of use, carried out continuously or batchwise, for example in stirred reactors.
Ethylene Urea prepared by a process according to the invention can be used in a variety of ways, for example in chemical syntheses as reactant or as component of a mixture.
Ethylene Urea is used, inter alia, for producing plasticizers, surface coatings and pharmaceuticals.
The invention further provides for the use of the ethylene urea according to the invention or the ethylene urea prepared by a process according to the invention for producing surface coatings and also textile and leather auxiliaries.
In the production of surface coatings and also in the textile and leather industry, ethylene urea is used, in particular, as formaldehyde scavenger.
Ethylene Urea is a chemical compound heterocyclic.
Ethylene Urea acts as the finishing agent for leather and textiles.
Ethylene Urea is also used in the formulation of adhesives, plasticizers, and lacquers.
Our offering can be utilized for both commercial and industrial applications.
Ethylene Urea is used in the production of polymers.
Ethylene Urea is used to make high polymers, plasticizers, lacquers, adhesives, and insecticides.
Ethylene urea is a colourless solid used to treat thick fabrics made of cellulose to prevent wrinkling.
Ethylene Urea results in permanently wrinkle-resistant materials. Our product comes in a variety of packaging.
Ethylene Urea is accurate in composition, non-toxic and safe to use.
First aid measures of Ethylene Urea
General Advice :
Consult a physician.
Show this safety data sheet to the doctor in attendance.
If inhaled :
If breathed in, move person into fresh air.
If not breathing, give artificial respiration.
Consult a physician.
In case of skin contact :
Wash off with soap and plenty of water.
Consult a physician.
In case of eye contact :
Rinse thoroughly with plenty of water for at least 15 minutes and consult a physician.
If swallowed :
Never give anything by mouth to an unconscious person.
Rinse mouth with water.
Consult a physician.
Substance identity
EC / List no.: 204-436-4
CAS no.: 121325-67-5
Mol. formula: C3H6N2O.1/2H2O
Hazard classification & labelling of Ethylene Urea
According to the majority of notifications provided by companies to ECHA in CLP notifications no hazards have been classified.
At least one company has indicated that the substance classification is affected by impurities or additives.
Ethylene Urea predicted as likely to meet criteria for category 1A or 1B carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, or reproductive toxicity, or with dispersive or diffuse use(s) where predicted likely to meet any classification criterion for health or environmental hazards, or where there is a nanoform soluble in biological and environmental media.
Ethylene Urea indicated, in 2009, as being intended to be registered by at least one company in the EEA.
Ethylene Urea for which classification and labeling data have been submitted to ECHA in a registration under REACH or notified by manufacturers or importers under CLP.
Such notifications are required for hazardous substances, as such or in mixtures, as well as for all substances subject to registration, regardless of their hazard.
Ethylene Urea listed in the EINECS, ELINCS, or NLP inventories.
Synonyms:
1,3-bis(hydroxymethyl)imidazolidin-2-one
1,3-bis(hydroxymethyl)imidazolidin-2-one
1,3-Bis(hydroxymethyl)imidazolidin-2-one
1,3-bis(hydroxymethyl)imidazolidin-2-one
1,3-Bis(hydroxymethyl)imidazolidin-2-one
2-Imidazolidinone, 1,3-bis(hydroxymethyl)-
136-84-5
136-84-5
1,3-Bis(hydroxymethyl)imidazolidin-2-one
2-Imidazolidinone, 1,3-bis(hydroxymethyl)-
Dimethylol ethylene urea
Carbamol TsEM
Cassurit RI
1,3-Dimethylol-2-imidazolidinone
Zeset S
Fixapret AH
Karbamol TsEM
Kurbamol TsEM
Quecodur AE
Silesian EM
Verapret AN
Calaroc EU
Neuperm ON
Prym E
Rhonite R 1
Dimethylolethyleneurea
1,3-Dimethylolethyleneurea
Cyclic dimethylolethyleneurea
N,N'-Dimethylolethyleneurea
Aerotex Reactant No. 100
Dimethylol cyclic ethyleneurea
Dimethylolcycloethyleneurea
1,3-Dihydroxymethyl-2-imidazolidone
1,3-Bis(hydroxymethyl)-2-imidazolidinone
N,N'-Bis(hydroxymethyl)ethyleneurea
BT 324
N,N'-Dimethylol-N,N'-ethyleneurea
NSC 57546
CV678N9PLY
NSC57546
NSC-57546
1,3-Bis(hydroxymethyl)-2-imidazolidone
EINECS 205-264-2
UNII-CV678N9PLY
SCHEMBL133648
DTXSID5059666
ZINC1688099
AKOS006272946
2-Imidazolidinone,3-bis(hydroxymethyl)-
2-Imidazolidinone,1,3-bis(hydroxymethyl)-
METHYL2,6-DIMETHOXY-3-NITROBENZOATE
W-109486
221-426-5 [EINECS]
2-Methyl-N-[2-(2-oxo-1-imidazolidinyl)ethyl]-2-propenamide
2-Methyl-N-[2-(2-oxo-1-imidazolidinyl)ethyl]acrylamid [German] [ACD/IUPAC Name]
2-Methyl-N-[2-(2-oxo-1-imidazolidinyl)ethyl]acrylamide [ACD/IUPAC Name]
2-Méthyl-N-[2-(2-oxo-1-imidazolidinyl)éthyl]acrylamide [French] [ACD/IUPAC Name]
2-Methyl-N-[2-(2-oxoimidazolidin-1-yl)ethyl]acrylamide
2-methyl-N-[2-(2-oxoimidazolidin-1-yl)ethyl]prop-2-enamide
2-Propenamide, 2-methyl-N-[2-(2-oxo-1-imidazolidinyl)ethyl]- [ACD/Index Name]
3089-19-8 [RN]
N-(2-METHACRYLAMIDOETHYL)ETHYLENE UREA
[3089-19-8] [RN]
2-Methyl-N-[2-(2-oxo-1-imidazolidi nyl)ethyl]-2-propenamide
2-Propenamide, 2-methyl-N-(2-(2-oxo-1-imidazolidinyl)ethyl)-
N-(2-(2-Oxoimidazolidin-1-yl)ethyl)methacrylamide
N-[2-(2-Oxo-1-imidazolidinyl)ethyl]methacrylamide
N-[2-(2-oxoimidazolidin-1-yl)ethyl]methacrylamide
N-[2-(Methacryloylamino)ethyl]imidazolidinone
