Looking for High Purity Methylene Chloride (MDC) Supplier in India?
Ask around a formulation lab about MDC and you'll get a mix of respect and caution in the same breath. It's a genuinely powerful solvent — dissolves almost anything organic you throw at it — but it's also one you handle with real care. That combination pretty much sums up its whole story.
We supply Pharma Grade Methylene Chloride (DCM, CAS 75-09-2) from Ankleshwar, Gujarat — manufactured to pharmacopeial standards for use in pharmaceutical extraction, purification, and API processing. Its broad solvency across both polar and non-polar compounds, combined with a low boiling point for easy removal, makes it a practical choice where other solvents simply don't have the same reach. Supply comes with MSDS, CoA, and handling documentation as standard.
If you're sourcing MDC for pharmaceutical-grade applications and need a supplier with proper regulatory documentation and consistent batch quality, get in touch — we supply both domestically and for export, with responses within one business day.
General Information
Methylene Chloride, or MDC — you'll also hear it called Dichloromethane, DCM if people are in a hurry — carries CAS No. 75-09-2. Formula-wise, it is CH2Cl2, not something complex. Practically speaking, it is seen as a colorless and clear liquid which is highly volatile and smells mildly sweet, with a tinge of chloroform. Nothing too bad, but definitely different enough for someone working with it to recognize it right away.
What makes MDC genuinely valuable is its solvency. Polar C-Cl bonds in its structure let it dissolve both polar and non-polar organic compounds, which is a fairly rare trick for a single solvent to pull off. Add a relatively low boiling point into the mix, and you've got something that dissolves a lot, then evaporates out cleanly when its job is done. That combination — strong solvency, easy removal — is why it's stuck around in extraction and purification work for so long.
Pharma-grade MDC specifically gets manufactured to meet pharmacopeial standards — tighter impurity limits, more consistency batch to batch, the whole regulatory package. That's a meaningfully different product from industrial-grade MDC, which gets used in things like paint strippers and adhesive formulations where purity requirements aren't nearly as strict.
One thing worth flagging plainly: MDC needs to be handled with proper ventilation and protective equipment. It's classified as a substance requiring careful handling, and cutting corners there just isn't worth it.
Applications
Methylene Chloride (MDC) provides essential extraction, processing, and analytical capabilities:
Active ingredient extraction
Extraction work is really where MDC shines — pulling active pharmaceutical ingredients out of raw material, including things like vitamins and antibiotics, where its solvency does most of the heavy lifting.
Process solvent
It's also a go-to as a process solvent more broadly, showing up across drug formulation, purification, and various synthesis steps where a reliable, fast-evaporating solvent is needed.
Analytical GC reference standard
And in analytical settings, MDC serves as a reference standard, particularly useful for determining analyte content in pharmaceutical formulations through gas chromatography.
