【Chinese name 】:Niacinamide
【English synonym】:Niacinamide,Vitamin B3,Vitamin PP
【Molecular formula 】:C6H6N2O
【Structural】:
【CAS】:98-92-0
【MDL】:MFCD00006395
【Molecular weight】:122.12
【Melting point 】:128~131°C
【Solubility】: 1g is soluble in around 2ml water, 1.5ml ethanol or around 10ml glycerin. It's easily soluble in acetone, amyl alcohol, chloroform, propylene glycol, butanol. It is almost insoluble in ether and benzene.
【Product description】:White crystalline powder or white granular powder; odorless or near odorless, bitter taste.
【Functions and applications】:
As a structured form of vitamins B, Nicotinamide is an important component of coenzyme I and II in the body of both human and animals.
Main functions and applications in feed additives:
* Preventing the skin diseases and the diseases of alimentary canal
* Promoting animal's growth, improving egg yield and hatching rates, ensuring good feathers.
* Cure for mucosal inflammation and ulcers.
* Preventing perosis of animals.
Lack of nicotinamide in animal's body will cause the poultry's skin disease, feather decrease and dermatitis. For pig, will cause hair shedding, dermatitis, and inflammation of tongue, esophageal mucosa and space inside mouth, such as black-tongue. And will also cause disorder of digestive system ,such as vomiting, diarrhea and decrease of food intake, neurological disorders, muscle spasm and paralysis, back ankle hypertrophy (especially for poultry ), and perosis.
Main functions and applications in food additives and medicine:
* Preventing skin disease and diseases of alimentary canal, such as pellagra, dermatitis,black-tongue, vomiting and diarrhea,etc.
* Promoting substance and energy's metabolism in body, promoting body's growth in normal..
* Cooperating with other medicine used to treat various mucosal inflammation and ulcers.
* Strong effect on vasodilatation, improving supplying of blood, it also has a certain effect on cerebral thrombosis, coronary heart disease and hyperlipidemia .
* Supplementing the lacking of niacin and nicotinamide due to long-term taking isoniazid and analogues.
Main functions and applications in daily cosmetics:
In recent years, nicotinamide are widely used in cosmetics. 2% dosage of nicotinamide are used in the basic cream system of cosmetics, with white and anti-wrinkle effect. And used in Shampoo & Conditioner it has effect on stimulating hair follicle, improving follicle's blood circulation so as to prevent trichomadesis. In addition, because nicotinamide has the function on vasodilatation, it can also be used in the products for removing the dark circles around eyes |
