Squalane

• 2,6,10,15,19,23 - hexamethyltetracosane (IUPAC)
• Cosbiol
• Vitabiosol
• Roban

Colorless oily liquid

Liquid

0.81 g · cm -3 ( 25)

-38 ° C

176 ° C / 0.05 mmHg

Practically insoluble in water

1.4530 ( 15 ° C)

Attention

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Squalane, a colorless oil, is an acyclic triterpene hydrocarbon and squalene together with the parent compound of most triterpenes. In general, it follows the features of the alkanes. Squalane is linked from two farnesane units tail-tail (see terpenes for explanation). Botrycoccan is an isomer of squalane.

Occurrence

Squalane comes (next squalene ) in fish liver oil and many vegetable oils before ( for example, wheat germ oil, rice germ oil, avocado oil, olive oil, ...).

Extraction

Among other things, the squalane is obtained in the United States in no small way from sharks. Today, however, it is also possible to connect, by hydrogenation of squalene to win or be isolated from vegetable oils. To demonstrate the origin, it is referred to in this case as phytosqualane.

Properties

Squalane is a clear, colorless, odorless, oily liquid. Your flash point is 217 ° C.

Use

As phytosqualane squalane is used in cosmetics as a skin softening and smoothing the lipid component. In hair care products it is used as a conditioner. In gas chromatography squalane serves as a particularly non-polar stationary phase.

Also it is used as a lubricant and transformer oil use.