Alkylamine is used for the synthesis of organic chemicals and surfactants used as a corrosion inhibitor, detergent, ore floating agent, fabric softener, antistatic agent, germicide, insecticide, emulsifier, dispersant, anticaking agent, lubricant and water treatment agent.
N-Octylamine is a raw material for n- octylpyrrolidone, a component of agricultural chemicals and organic pigments, corrosion inhibitors, lubricant additives, biocides and surfactants. N-Octylamine also is of technical interest for the production of fabric softeners and flotation agents.
Nowadays it is made from valuable intermediate products of the chemical industry. The addition of n-octylamine to microsomes prepared from the midgut of tobacco hornworn (Manduca sexta) larvae causes an unusual spectral interaction.
The causal factor for this unusual spectral interaction occurs in the cytoplasm and appears to be protein-bound. It was also present in similar preparations from the tobacco budworm (Heliothis virescens) but not in those from rat or mouse liver or abdomens from insecticide-resistant or susceptible houseflies (Musca domestica).
Microsomes from rat and mouse liver, but not those from housefly abdomens, exhibit similar unusual spectral interactions with n-octylamine when supplemented with the soluble factor from the hornworm. |
