Product Profile of Xylene

Plastichem Industrial Corporation supplies Xylene. Plastichem Industrial Corporation is supplier of laboratory chemicals, specialty chemicals such as Butyl Acetate, N-Butanol, Methanol and Mix Xylene. Xylene is used as a solvent in the printing, rubber, leather and allied industries.

Chemical Specifications of Xylene:

• Xylene is a chemical composed by a group of three benzene derivatives that encompasses ortho-, meta- and para- isomers of dimethyl benzene.

• The o-, m- and p- designations specify to which carbon atoms [of the benzene ring] the two methyl groups are attached.

• Counting the carbon atoms from one of the ring carbons bonded to a methyl group and counting towards the second ring carbon bonded to a methyl group, the o- isomer has the

IUPAC name of 1,2-dimethylbenzene, the m- isomer has the IUPAC name of 1,3- dimethylbenzene, and the p- isomer has the IUPAC name of 1,4- dimethylbenzene.

• Appearance: colorless,

• Sweet-smelling liquid

• Flammable

Applications of Xylene:

• Used as a solvent in the printing, rubber, and leather industries.

• Used in the production of polymers

• Used as a cleaning agent for steel