Tetrazolium Blue Chloride

GRO-562

Tetrazolium Blue Chloride

A colorless compound that forms a colored diformazan when reduced. Used in the assay of reducing sugars. An indicator for germination capacity in seed testing. This product is suitable for used in plant cell culture. CAS NO. 1871-22-3.

Solid

727.64

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Tetrazolium blue chloride (BTC) is a colorless tetrazolium compound that upon reduction forms a colored diformazan. The reactivity has been applied to the analysis of reducing compounds including the nanomolar detection of reducing sugars and carbidopa and methyldopa. BTC has been used for histological staining of mouse coronal brain sections and rat brain sections. In combination with 4-nitrocatechol, tetrazolium blue chloride forms a ternary complex with molybdenum(VI) for extraction and spectrophotometric determination of molybdenum. It has also been used to stain Francisella tularensis cells for tularemic microagglutination test.

Store at room temperature.

BTC; Blue Tetrazolium Chloride; TZ; Ditetrazolium Chloride; Dimethoxy Neotetrazolium; 4-Anisyltetrazolium blue

Methanol (50 mg/mL), Ethanol

C40H32Cl2N8O2.