Panthenol physical and chemical properties

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).