Product Description

Application

Chloroacetic acid is used in the manufacture of cellulose ethers (used mainly for drilling muds, detergents,

food and pharmaceuticals), as a post-emergence contact herbicide and defoliant, and in the manufacture

of glycine and thioglycolic acid. 

Chloroacetic acid is also used in the manufacture of various dyes, synthetic caffeine, and organic

chemicals. 

Determination of zinc, calcium, silicon and titanium                            Used in the dye industry to produce indigo dye

Used to make pesticides and as intermediates in organic synthesis   Used as non-ferrous metal flotation agent and chromatographic                                                                                                                              analysis reagent

Chloroacetic acid is also an important carboxymethylating agent, used to prepare sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid, etc.

Synthetic caffeine, epinephrine, glycine, naphthalene acetic acid