Tissue adhesives and hemostasis‐inducing compounds: The alkyl cyanoacrylates

In an effort to obtain tissue adhesive monomers which would wet and spread on tissue substrates and be rapidly biodegradable, the branched esters of alkyl α‐cyanoacrylates, as well as a 95‐5 wt.‐% mixture of n‐heptyl and methyl α‐cyanoacrylate, were studied. The data indicate that alkyl α‐cyanoacrylates having branched alkoxy groups appear to be promising in this regard.