page_title: Isophorone
section_title: Applications
hierarchical_section_title: Isophorone / Applications
context_page_description: Isophorone is an α, β-unsaturated cyclic ketone. It is a colorless liquid with a characteristic peppermint-like odor, although commercial samples can appear yellowish. Used as a solvent and as a precursor to polymers, it is produced on a large scale industrially.
context_section_description: The partly hydrogenated derivative trimethylcyclohexanone is used in production of polycarbonates.  It condenses with phenol to give an analogue of bisphenol A. Polycarbonates produced by phosgenation of these two diols produces a polymer with improved thermal stability. Trimethyladipic acid and 2,2,4-trimethylhexamethylenediamine are produced from trimethylcyclohexanone and trimethylcyclohexanol. They are used to make specialty polyamides. Hydrocyanation gives the nitrile followed by reductive amination gives isophorone diamine.  This diamine is used to produce isophorone diisocyanate which has certain niche applications.
  Full hydrogenation gives 3,3,5-Trimethylcyclohexanol, a precursor to both sunscreens and chemical weapons.
caption: Isophorone diisocyanate is used to produce specialty polyurethanes.
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