Colorless transparent liquid, steam is tasted for the green.
Glyoxal is mainly used in textile industry, fiber treating agent can increase the spinning of cotton, nylon and other fiber shrinkage and anti-wrinkle, durability is ironing finishing agent.
In Japan the use amount of glyoxal total elimination of 80 % glyoxal is gelatin, gelatin, cheese, pva and starch, such as insoluble adhesives, glyoxal are also used in leather industry and production of waterproof matches.
Glyoxal is organic synthesis of raw materials.
By acetaldehyde, formaldehyde and urea in the presence of sodium carbonate heating condensation get a 2 d - resin, used as fabric finishing agent;
Formaldehyde, glyoxal and ammonium sulfate reaction, synthesis imidazole ring, and then synthetic imidazoles antifungal medicine clotrimazole, miconazole, etc;
Glyoxal and o-phenylendiamine cyclization of benzene and pyrazine: it is pyrazinamide anti-tb drug intermediates.
Produced by glyoxal hydroxy phenyl acetic acid has industrial production in Japan, used as antibiotic intermediates and vitamin A series products.
Glyoxal is also used in berberine hydrochloride and sulfa drugs sulfanilamide methoxyl pyrazine synthesis.
Also used for pest control agent, deodorant, body preservatives, sand mould curing agent.