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HEXYL CELLOSOLVE

HEXYL CELLOSOLVE Solvent

CAS: 112-25-4

European Community (EC) Number: 203-951-1

HEXYL CELLOSOLVE Solvent is a high boiling point, slow evaporating solvent with excellent solvency characteristics.
HEXYL CELLOSOLVE Solvent has the characteristic structure of glycol ethers and contains both ether and alcohol functional groups in the same molecule.
As a result, HEXYL CELLOSOLVE Solvent provides unique cleaning power for removal of both water-soluble and greasy (water insoluble) soils.
The linear hexyl portion of this provides excellent oil solubility characteristics that make it useful in both consumer and industrial cleaner applications.
HEXYL CELLOSOLVE Solvent plays an important role in specialty printing inks.
Because of its limited water solubility and slow evaporation, HEXYL CELLOSOLVE Solvent can be used in formulations for the silk screen process to prevent premature setting of the ink.

Glycol ether solvent.
HEXYL CELLOSOLVE Solvent is used as solvent in specialty printing inks, coalescent for water-borne latex-based coatings, primary solvent in solvent-based silk screen printing inks.
HEXYL CELLOSOLVE Solvent possesses high boiling point.
HEXYL CELLOSOLVE Solvent exhibits very good solvency, superior oil solubility, and slow evaporation rate.

Hexyl CELLOSOLVE solvent and Hexyl CARBITOL solvent are high boiling, glycol ether solvents with vapor pressures less than 0.1 mmHg at 20°C.
The hexyl imparts lower water solubility characteristics to these products than is typical with other glycol ether solvents.
Both Hexyl CELLOSOLVE and Hexyl CARBITOL solvents are readily biodegradable.
These products are especially useful as coalescing solvents for waterborne coatings, as slow evaporating solvents for high-solids coatings, and as solvents in cleaning applications and inks.
Both Hexyl CELLOSOLVE solvent and Hexyl CARBITOL solvent are potential alternatives to halocarbons in non-vapor degreasing applications.

Benefits
-High boiling point
-Slow evaporation rate
-Excellent solvency
-Great chemical stability
-Biodegradable
-Compatible with water and a number of organic solvents
-Waterborne coatings: excellent coalescing solvent for water-borne, latex-based coatings
-Cleaning: coupling agent and solvent in household and industrial cleaners, rust removers, hard surface cleaners and disinfectants
-Cleaning: low vapor pressure allows formulating opportunities to address volatile organic compound (VOC) concerns
-Printing ink: especially effective in printing ink formulations for the silk-screen process

Uses
-Cosmetics
-Cleaners
-Textiles
-Waterborne coatings
-Cleaning
-Printing ink

Molecular Weight (g/mol): 146.2
Boiling Point at 760 mmHg, 1.01 ar: 208 °C (406 °F)
Flash Point (Setaflash Closed Cup): 91.5 °C (210°F)
Freezing Point: -50 °C (-58°F)
Vapor pressure at 20°C — extrapolated
0.05 mmHg
0.01 kPa
Specific gravity (25/25°C): 0.889
Liquid Density at 20°C: 0.888 g/cm3 (7.41 lb/gal)
Vapor Density (air = 1): 5
Viscosity (cP or mPa•s at 25°C): 4.5
Surface tension (dynes/cm or mN/m at 20°C): 27.7 (neat product)
27.1 (25% aq. Sol’n)
Specific heat (J/g/°C at 25°C): 2.296
Heat of vaporization (J/g) at normal boiling point: 342.76
Net heat of combustion (kJ/g) — predicted at 25°C: 32.6
Autoignition temperature: 225 °C (437 °F)
Evaporation rate (n-butyl acetate = 1.0): <0.01
Solubility, g/L or % at 20°C:
Solvent in water 9.46 g/L

Hexyl CELLOSOLVE Solvent is a high boiling point, slow evaporating rate solvent with excellent solvency characteristics.
HEXYL CELLOSOLVE Solvent has the characteristic structure of glycol ethers and contains both ether and alcohol functional groups in the same molecule.
As a result, HEXYL CELLOSOLVE Solvent provides unique cleaning power for removal of both water-soluble and greasy (water insoluble) soils.
The linear hexyl portion of Hexyl CELLOSOLVE Solvent provides excellent oil solubility characteristics that make it useful in both consumer and industrial cleaner applications.
Hexyl CELLOSOLVE Solvent plays an important role in specialty printing inks.
Because of its limited water solubility and slow evaporation, HEXYL CELLOSOLVE Solvent can be used in formulations for the silk screen process to prevent premature setting of the ink.

Applications
• Solvent in specialty printing inks
• Coalescent for water-borne, latex-based coatings
• Coupling agent and solvent in household and industrial cleaners, rust removers, hard surface cleaners, and disinfectants
• Primary solvent in solvent-based silk screen printing inks

Features
• High boiling point
• Excellent solvency
• Superior oil solubility
• Slow evaporation rate

Hexyl CELLOSOLVE and Hexyl CARBITOL solvents are excellent coalescing solvents or filming aids with waterborne emulsion or dispersion coatings.
Both are slow evaporating solvents that partition primarily into the polymer phase of a waterborne coating.
They are effective in reducing Minimum Filming Temperature and can be used with associative thickeners to enhance application properties such as brushability or roll application in high performance coatings.

Due to their slow evaporation and excellent solvent properties, Hexyl CELLOSOLVE solvent and Hexyl CARBITOL solvent contribute good flow and leveling to high-solids coatings during the drying/curing cycle.
It is extremely important that the last solvent to evaporate has good solvency properties for the coating system.
This allows uniform diffusion of the solvent through the film and maximizes appearance and film properties by reducing the occurrence of defects due to solvent-pop and air entrapment.

Hexyl CELLOSOLVE solvent and Hexyl CARBITOL solvent have the characteristic structures of glycol ethers and contain ether and alcohol functional groups in the same molecule.
As a result, they provide unique cleaning power for removal of both water-soluble and greasy (water-insoluble) soils.
Both Hexyl CELLOSOLVE solvent and Hexyl CARBITOL solvent have longer length hydrophobic groups compared to other commercial members of the family and thus give excellent oil-solubility characteristics.
They are effective in both consumer and industrial applications.

Hexyl CELLOSOLVE solvent and Hexyl CARBITOL solvent play an important role in specialty printing inks.
Because of their limited water-solubility and slow evaporation, these solvents are especially effective in printing ink formulations for the silk-screen process, by preventing premature setting of the ink.
Hexyl CARBITOL solvent is also popular in metaldeco inks as a slow evaporating solvent, providing good flow and leveling.

Hexyl CELLOSOLVE solvent and Hexyl CARBITOL solvent offer excellent biodegradability when tested under Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) methods and classifications.
These materials can be handled in conventional wastewater-treatment processes at normally expected concentrations.

SYNONYMS:

2-(Hexyloxy)ethanol

112-25-4

2-Hexyloxyethanol

Ethylene glycol monohexyl ether

Ethanol, 2-(hexyloxy)-

2-HEXOXYETHANOL

Hexyl cellosolve

n-Hexyl cellosolve

Glycol monohexyl ether

Cellosolve, N-hexyl-

2-Hexyloxy-1-ethanol

Ethylene glycol n-hexyl ether

UNII-7P0O8282NR

2-n-(Hexyloxy)ethanol

7P0O8282NR

Ethylene glycol mono-n-hexyl ether

MFCD00045997

DSSTox_CID_6908

DSSTox_RID_78248

DSSTox_GSID_26908

31726-34-8

Ethanol, 2-hexyloxy-

CAS-112-25-4

Ethylene glycol-n-monohexyl ether

HSDB 5569

EINECS 203-951-1

Hexyl alcohol, ethoxylated

BRN 1734691

Hexylglycol

2-hexyloxy-ethanol

2-(n-Hexyloxy)ethanol

Ethylenglykolmonohexylether

2-(1-Hexyloxy) ethanol

EC 203-951-1

Ethylene glycol hexyl ether

SCHEMBL24741

4-01-00-02383 (Beilstein Handbook Reference)

C6E1

CHEMBL3188016

DTXSID1026908

Poly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyl), .alpha.-hexyl-.omega.-hydroxy-

ZINC2041054

Tox21_202105

Tox21_300545

AKOS009156771

MCULE-1339769602

NCGC00248089-01

NCGC00248089-02

NCGC00254448-01

NCGC00259654-01

LS-13544

DB-041064

FT-0631642

H0343

W-109065

Q27268660

Ethylene glycol monohexyl ether, BioXtra, >=99.0% (GC)