What is Butadiene?
Butadiene is a colorless, highly reactive gas that's used as a raw material in the petrochemical industry. It's a C4 olefin, which means its molecules form straight chains and are unsaturated.
Industrial Grade 99.5% 1,3-butadiene
Industrial Gas butadiene
Is butadiene a petrochemical?
Butadiene is considered a petrochemical. It is primarily produced from the cracking of naphtha, which is derived from crude oil, and is a byproduct of gasoline production. Butadiene is typically obtained through processes such as steam cracking and catalytic cracking of hydrocarbons.
Application of Butadiene
- Most butadiene is used to make synthetic rubbers for the manufacture of tyres, grommets and elastic bands.
- Smaller amounts of butadiene are used to make adiponitrile, a precursor to some nylons.
- Butadiene is used to make the solvent sulfolane.
- Butadiene is also useful in the synthesis of cycloalkanes and cycloalkenes, as it reacts with double and triple carbon-carbon bonds through Diels-Alder reactions.
