Abstract Purpose. To determine whether the delivery of a phenolic parent drug by its alkyloxycarbonyl (AOC) prodrugs through hairless mouse skin would show similar dependencies on water and lipid solubilities that similar prodrugs of more polar heterocyclic amide and imide parent drugs have shown. Methods. Flux through hairless mouse skin from suspensions in isopropyl myristate (J MIPM), solubilities in IPM (S IPM) and water (S AQ), ...