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Typical Applications

	Features	Applications
Chemical Grade	High dipole moment Excellent solvent for many organic compounds Easily solvates with cation and enhances the reactivity of anion Chemically stable and solvates some inorganic compounds	Reaction and purification solvent Pharmaceuticals Speciality chemicals Recrystallization Nonaqueous reaction such as using AlCl₃, and POCl₃
	Reactivity of cyano group enables production of many nitrogen containing organic intermediates	Synthesis of organic compounds Agrochemicals (pesticide, etc.) Pharmaceuticals (vitamine B1, etc.) Dyes (azo dyes) Plastic resin modifier (melamine based) Epoxy resin hardener (imidazole based)
	Easy to produce azeotropes with other organic compounds	Extraction and separation solvent Extraction and separation of olefins from mixture of olefins and paraffins in petroleum refineries
Reagent Grade	UV absorbance at 250 nm is below 0.03 abs UV absorbance at 200 nm is below 0.3 abs	Raw material for Analytical reagent Carrier liquid for liquid chromatography Solvent for UV spectrum and polarography
Highly Purified Grade	Assay: 99.99% up more Water content: below 50 ppm Organic by-products: only very small amount of propionitrile	High purity analytical reagent Carrier liquid for liquid chromatography Solvent for UV spectrum and polarography
		Solvent for nonaqueous reaction Nonaqueous reaction using AlCl₃ and POCl₃ Nonaqueous titration of weak electrolytes Solvent for electrochemical reaction
		Emerging applications Electrolyte for rechargeable batteries Solvent for synthesis of organic electroluminescent materials Cleaning solvent for electronic components Separation and purification of chiral compounds with column Synthesis and purification solvent for DNA