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Carminic acid

analytical standard

Synonym(s):

Natural Red 4

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C22H20O13
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
492.39
Colour Index Number:
75470
Beilstein:
71651
EC Number:
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
85151701
PubChem Substance ID:
E Number:
E120
NACRES:
NA.24

grade

analytical standard

Quality Level

Assay

≥90% (HPLC)

shelf life

limited shelf life, expiry date on the label

technique(s)

HPLC: suitable
gas chromatography (GC): suitable

application(s)

cleaning products
cosmetics
food and beverages
personal care

format

neat

SMILES string

Cc1c(C(O)=O)c(O)cc2C(=O)c3c(O)c(O)c([C@@H]4O[C@H](CO)[C@@H](O)[C@H](O)[C@H]4O)c(O)c3C(=O)c12

InChI

1S/C22H20O13/c1-4-8-5(2-6(24)9(4)22(33)34)13(25)10-11(15(8)27)16(28)12(18(30)17(10)29)21-20(32)19(31)14(26)7(3-23)35-21/h2,7,14,19-21,23-24,26,28-32H,3H2,1H3,(H,33,34)/t7-,14-,19+,20-,21+/m1/s1

InChI key

DGQLVPJVXFOQEV-JNVSTXMASA-N

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General description

Carminic acid is an anthraquinone red dye. It is majorly used in textile industry as pigmenting agent.

Application

Carminic acid was used to compare and identify the Leucopis sp. using analytical methods like TLC and HPLC.
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Storage Class Code

11 - Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 2

Personal Protective Equipment

dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Gloves

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Samanan Poowakanjana et al.
Journal of food science, 74(9), C707-C712 (2010-05-25)
Carmine used to color surimi seafood often seeps or bleeds from red-colored meat to white meat when vacuum-packed products go through high-temperature long-time pasteurization. Various physical and chemical treatments were examined to investigate means to inhibit or minimize carmine bleeding
T Eisner et al.
Experientia, 50(6), 610-615 (1994-06-15)
Larvae of two insects, a coccinellid beetle (Hyperaspis trifurcata) and a chamaemyiid fly (Leucopis sp.), feed on cochineal insects and appropriate their prey's defensive chemical, carminic acid, for protective purposes of their own. H. trifurcata discharges the chemical with droplets
Ana Serrano et al.
Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 401(2), 735-743 (2011-06-01)
A new analytical approach based on high-performance liquid chromatography with diode array detector (HPLC-DAD) and multivariate data analysis was applied and assessed for analyzing the red dye extracted from cochineal insects, used in precious historical textiles. The most widely used
Feng Wang et al.
Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy, 79(5), 1946-1951 (2011-06-28)
A fluorescent enhancement system carminic acid (CA)-La3+-CTAB is found and based on this finding a new fluorimetric method for the determination of CA is developed. Under optimized conditions, the enhanced intensities of fluorescence are quantitatively in proportion to the concentrations
Fayezeh Samari et al.
Analytica chimica acta, 667(1-2), 49-56 (2010-05-06)
A simple analytical method based on the second-order calibration of the pH gradient spectrophotometric data was developed for assay of carminic acid (CA) in human plasma and orange juice over the concentration range of 1.5-14.0microM. The multi-way data analysis method

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