Panthenol
is an odourless, hardly bitter, awful viscous, cellophane and colourless
aqueous at allowance temperature, but salts of pantothenic acid (for archetype
sodium pantothenate) are powders (typically white). It is calmly acrid in
baptize and alcohol, moderately acrid in diethyl ether, acrid in chloroform, in
propylene glycol, and hardly acrid in glycerin.
Panthenol's
broadcast actinic blueprint is HO–CH2–C(CH3)2–CH(OH)–CONH–CH2CH2CH2–OH.
Panthenol
comes in two enantiomers, D and L. Only D-panthenol (dexpanthenol) is
biologically active, about both forms accept moisturizing properties. For
corrective use, panthenol comes either in D form, or as a racemic admixture of
D and L (DL-panthenol).