Ethyl butylacetylaminopropionate

Physical properties

Ethyl butylacetylaminopropionate is a natural product found in Averrhoa bilimbi with data available.

History

Ethyl butylacetylaminopropionate is a synthetic molecule derived from a natural amino acid, b-alanine, and its alternative chemical formula name is beta-alanine, n-acetyl-N-butyl-ethyl ester. It is known as IR3535 or EBAAP in the literature. This molecule was developed in the early 1970s using targeted molecular design following functional structure guidelines similar to those reported by Boeckh.1 In his study, repellency of a chemical was correlated with a structural pattern consisting of an amide group linked by a lipophilic chain to an sp3 (i.e., an oxygen atom without a double bond) hybridized oxygen within a group such as hydroxyl or ester. IR3535 repellent (hereafter referred to as IR3535) is currently used in over 150 consumer products world-wide. Despite its commercial history of more than 10 years world-wide and 25 years in European countries, IR3535 has been introduced as a product in the U.S. only recently (1999).

The Uses of Ethyl butylacetylaminopropionate

Ethyl Butylacetylaminopropionate is an insect repellent for application to human skin and clothing in public health applications, to repel biting arthropods such as mosquitoes, flies and ticks.

Definition

ChEBI: Ethyl 3-(N-butylacetamido)propionate is a tertiary carboxamide, a member of acetamides and an ethyl ester.