Ferric chloride is a moderately strong Lewis acid and it is used as a catalyst in organic synthesis. The vapor-phase co-reductions with other metal halides by hydrogen results in finely divided intermetallics with applications as structural materials or compounds with useful thermoelectric,…

Potassium chloride is a widely used reagent in biochemistry and molecular biology. Potassium chloride is a salt commonly used in the preparation of phosphate buffered saline and for the extraction and solubilization of proteins. It is a good potassium source. Also used in the hypotonic…

Imidazole is a chelator for the binding of various divalent cations. Imidazole is a highly polar, planar 5 membered ring. It is amphoteric in nature. Imidazole can be used for the elution of histidine containing proteins from divalent cation resins and can also be used in reverse staining of…

Guanidine Hydrochloride is a strong chaotropic agent useful for the denaturation and subsequent refolding of proteins. This strong denaturant can solubilize insoluble or denatured proteins, such as inclusion bodies, and be used for the recovery of periplasmic proteins. This can be used as the first…

Ferrous sulfate heptahydrate is a reagent used in the manufacturing of iron compounds, in electroplating baths, aluminium etching, process engraving and lithography, and in redox polymerisation. It is used as a reducing agent in chemical processes, leather dyes and writing inks. Also, it is a…

Non-essential amino acid for human development; referred to as an excitatory amino acid (EAA) due to its role in neurotransmission. L-Glutamic Acid Monosodium Salt is used as a neurotransmitter at fast synapses; agonist at kainate, NMDA and quisqualate receptors. Agonist at kainate, NMDA, and…

MP EcoChrom™ Silica, the chemical compound silicon dioxide, also known as silica (from the Latin silex), is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula SiO2 with a mean pore size of 60Å and particles size of 63-200μm. MP silica are free of particles outside the standard range. The…

Magnesium chloride hexahydrate (MgCl2·6H2O) is an inorganic salt that can be generated from the acid leach solution of magnesite tailings. It is a potential phase change material (PCM) for storing thermal energy in solar cookers. The result of altering poly (vinyl alcohol)(PVA) films with…

Fructose, or fruit sugar, is a simple monosaccharide found in many plants. It is one of the three dietary monosaccharides, along with glucose and galactose, that are absorbed directly into the bloodstream during digestion. Fructose is a 6-carbon polyhydroxyketone. It is an isomer of glucose which…

Choline chloride is an organic compound and a quaternary ammonium salt. It is a weak acid. Choline chloride is the salt of the naturally occurring choline, the pre-stage of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which is important for mnemonic and thought-processes. Choline occurs naturally in fungi,…

Polyvinylpyrrolidone is a water-soluble polymer made from the monomer N-vinylpyrrolidone. Typically used as thickeners, dispersing agents, detoxicant, complexing agent, lubricants and binders. Polyvinylpyrrolidone is used as an emulsifier and disintegrant for solution polymerization; also for…

Sodium metasilicate nonahydrate is white powder, mainly used in detergent/washing industry, metal cleaner and ceramic industry. In detergent/washing industry, it can be used instead of Sodium triphosphate to raise cleaning efficiency and reduce enviroment pollution, provide excellent alkaline…

MP offers this grade of albumin as a more highly purified product than our traditional True Cohn Fraction V Powder. Due to lower manufacturing costs, this grade is available at a substantial savings relative to our True Cohn Fraction V Powder. Albumin is general blocking reagent in ELISA, as a…

Alanine is a nonessential amino acid that plays a key role in the glucose-alanine cycle between muscle tissue and the liver. In amino acid-degrading tissues such as muscle, amino groups are pooled as glutamate by transamination reactions. Used as an amino donor in conversion of…

Calcium chloride is useful in preparing competent bacteria. Calcium chloride dihydrate was used in the preparation of calcium-alginate beads. It was used to compose the medium for Thermophilic Clostridia (MTC). It may be used for the concentration of virus vectors in a protocol.

Potassium phosphate is a reagent with high buffering capacity. It occurs in several forms: monobasic, dibasic, and tribasic (K3PO4). Most pH neutral potassium phosphate buffer solutions consist of mixtures of the monobasic and dibasic forms to varying degrees, depending on the desired pH. …

Sodium acetate is the sodium salt of acetic acid. Sodium acetate is used as a buffer in the buffering range of pH 3.6-5.6. It is also used in the purification and precipitation of nucleic acids, protein crystallization, Staining of gels in protein gel electrophoresis, HPLC, mordant dyeing, DNA…

Sodium dibasic anhydrous is used as a sequestrant, emulsifier and buffer in foods, as mordant in dyeing for weighting silk, in tanning, in manufacturing of enamels, ceramics, detergents, boiler compounds; as fireproofing agent in soldering and brazing instead of borax; as reagent and buffer in…

Glycine is a non-chiral amino acid that can be synthesized in the body from the amino acid serine by Serine Hydroxymethyltransferase. Acts as an inhibitory neurotransmitter Shown to block NMDA-stimulated dopamine release in fetal mesencephalic cell cultures Increase NMDA-receptor…

Sucrose is a nonreducing disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose, linked via their anomeric carbons. It is obtained commercially from Sugarcane, sugar beet (Beta vulgaris), and other plants and used extensively as a food and a sweetener. Use to create sucrose gradients for purification of…

Sodium phosphate dibasic anhydrous is a sodium salt of phosphoric acid. It is a white powder that is highly hygroscopic and water soluble. Sodium phosphate dibasic has been used for preparing phosphate buffer which in turn is utilized in X-gal staining. Sodium phosphate dibasic is an…

Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is a condensation polymer of ethylene oxide and water. PEGs are susceptible to oxidative degradation in the presence of air. Minimizing the exposure of PEG to elevated temperatures and/or exposure to oxygen, or addition of an antioxidant can limit the amount of…

Cetylpyridinium chloride is used is in some types of mouthwashes, toothpastes, lozenges, throat sprays, breath sprays, and nasal sprays. It is an antiseptic that kills bacteria and other microorganisms. It has been shown to be effective in preventing dental plaque and reducing gingivitis.

Ammonium sulfate is an inorganic salt. Ammonium Sulfate may be used for the precipitation or fractionation of proteins or for purification of antibodies. Useful for crystallographic analysis of nucleic acids and proteins. The use of ammonium sulfate in long PCR buffer, in PCR lysis solution, and…

HEPPS is used as a separator in ultrathin isoelectric focusing gels; enhances the resolution of phosphoglucomutase. HEPES is widely used in cell culture, largely because it is better at maintaining physiological pH despite changes in carbon dioxide concentration (produced by cellular respiration).

Sodium Acetate is used as a buffer in the buffering range of pH 3.6-5.6.

Guanidine hydrochloride consists of a network of guanidinium cations and chloride anions linked by N–H•••Cl hydrogen bonds, it is a strong chaotropic agent. Guanidine HCl may agglomerate upon storage. It may appear as a free-flowing crystalline powder, a free flowing powder…

D-(+)-Maltose monohydrate is used as a sweetener with about one-third the sweetness of sucrose and as a nutrient in culture media. It is used in pharmaceutical formulations and as a parenteral supplement of sugar for diabetics.

Tris have been useful as buffers in a wide variety of biological systems. It has been used as a starting material for polymers, oxazolones (with carboxylic acids) and oxazolidines (with aldehydes). It does not precipitate calcium salts and is of value in maintaining solubility of manganese salts.…

Prior to lyophilization, the product is filtered through a 0.2 µm filter. Albumin is used to solubilize lipids, and is also used as a blocking agent in Western blots or ELISA applications. Globulin free albumins are suitable for use in applications where no other proteins should be present…

MOPS is used as a biological buffer. MOPS is a zwitterionic amino acid which acts as one of the "Good" buffers. It is a structural analog to MES; however, MOPS is a more suitable biological buffer than MES because the pH range is closer to pH 7.4. A buffer using MOPS sodium salt can be…

Sodium phosphate monobasic is a reagent with very high buffering capacity widely used in molecular biology, biochemistry and chromatography. Useful in conjunction with Sodium Dibasic Phosphate, in the preparation of biological buffers. Used in many applications including the purification of antibodies.