Adipic acid is an alpha,omega-dicarboxylic acid that is the 1,4-dicarboxy derivative of butane.Adipic acid is a white crystalline solid. It is insoluble in water.
Adipic acid is a straight-chain aliphatic dicarboxylic acid, commonly used in the manufacturing of nylon-6,6 and plasticizers. Conventionally it was manufactured from petrochemicals but in recent days it can be synthesized from renewable substrates by means of biological methods