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Thymol Blue sodium salt

≥98%

Synonym(s):

Thymolsulfonphthalein sodium salt

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C27H29NaO5S
CAS Number:
62625-21-2
Molecular Weight:
488.57
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
3861515
EC Number:
263-650-6
MDL number:
MFCD00151093
UNSPSC Code:
12352200
PubChem Substance ID:
24899910

assay

≥98%

mp

283-285 °C (dec.) (lit.)

solubility

95% ethanol: 10 mg/mL, clear, dark green

SMILES string

[Na+].CC(C)c1cc(c(C)cc1O)C2(OS(=O)(=O)c3ccccc23)c4cc(C(C)C)c([O-])cc4C

InChI

1S/C27H30O5S.Na/c1-15(2)19-13-22(17(5)11-24(19)28)27(21-9-7-8-10-26(21)33(30,31)32-27)23-14-20(16(3)4)25(29)12-18(23)6;/h7-16,28-29H,1-6H3;/q;+1/p-1

InChI key

BAVBEHWEOJMHDS-UHFFFAOYSA-M

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General description

Thymol Blue is a pH indicator with visual transition intervals of pH 1.2 (red) to pH 2.8 (yellow), and pH 8.0 (yellow) to pH 9.2 (blue).

Application

Thymol Blue sodium salt was used to indicate the changes in pH to reflect ionization in multi-component drug formulations.[1]

Storage Class

13 - Non Combustible Solids

wgk_germany

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

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Ramprakash Govindarajan et al.
Pharmaceutical research, 23(10), 2454-2468 (2006-08-26)
Evaluation of the effect of formulation composition and processing variables on the microenvironment in solid dosage forms, based on ionization of indicator probes. Sulfonephthalein indicators were intimately mixed with individual excipients, binary excipient mixtures or multi-component blends by the solvent
N Gayathri et al.
Journal of AOAC International, 84(4), 1065-1069 (2001-08-15)
A simple and sensitive spectrophotometric method was developed for the determination of trace amounts of sulfur dioxide. The method is based on the reaction of SO2 with a known excess of ICI as the oxidant. The unreacted ICI iodinates thymol
P Balderas-Hernández et al.
Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy, 66(1), 68-73 (2006-07-11)
This paper presents the results concerning the determination of the formation constants of the complexes between thymol blue, TB, and the metal ions Pb(II) or Cd(II). The experimental procedure was carried out in the presence of a nitrogen atmosphere at
Shangjie Xu et al.
Macromolecular bioscience, 7(8), 968-974 (2007-08-01)
A simple general synthetic concept to build dendritic core-shell architectures with pH-labile linkers based on hyperbranched PEI cores and biocompatible PEG shells is presented. Using these dendritic core-shell architectures as nanocarriers, the encapsulation and transport of polar dyes of different
Yong-Doo Park et al.
Journal of protein chemistry, 22(5), 473-480 (2003-12-24)
Sensitive assay methods for tyrosinase are essential not only for the understanding the process of pigment production but also for the development of effective inhibitors of tyrosinase. To develop an efficient assay method, we applied thymol blue to reaction mixtures.
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