This product is readily soluble in anhydrous ethanol, ethyl acetate, ether, benzene, and cyclohexane, but insoluble in water. Azone is a novel, highly efficient, safe, and non-toxic transdermal absorption enhancer, exhibiting significant permeation-enhancing effects on both hydrophilic and lipophilic drugs. It can be widely used in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, pesticide, aerosol, printing and dyeing, and petroleum exploration industries. This product possesses advantages such as strong penetration, colorlessness, odorlessness, non-toxicity, and non-irritation.
This compound belongs to the class of organic compounds known as caprolactams. These are cyclic amides of caproic acid. Caproic acid is the carboxylic acid derived from hexane with the general formula C5H11COOH.
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