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Guanidine hydrochloride

BioUltra, ≥99.5% (AT)

Synonym(s):

Aminoformamidine hydrochloride, Aminomethanamidine hydrochloride, Guanidinium chloride

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Linear Formula:
NH2C(=NH)NH2 · HCl
CAS Number:
50-01-1
Molecular Weight:
95.53
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
3591990
EC Number:
200-002-3
MDL number:
MFCD00013026
UNSPSC Code:
12352200
PubChem Substance ID:
24873454

product line

BioUltra

assay

≥99.5% (AT)

impurities

insoluble matter, passes filter test

ign. residue

≤0.05% (as SO4)

loss

≤0.05% loss on drying, 20 °C (HV)

pH

4.5-6.0 (25 °C, 6 M in H2O)

mp

180-185 °C (lit.)

solubility

H2O: 6 M at 20 °C, clear, colorless

density

1.3 g/cm3 (lit.)

anion traces

sulfate (SO42-): ≤50 mg/kg

cation traces

Al: ≤5 mg/kg
As: ≤0.1 mg/kg
Ba: ≤5 mg/kg
Bi: ≤5 mg/kg
Ca: ≤10 mg/kg
Cd: ≤5 mg/kg
Co: ≤5 mg/kg
Cr: ≤5 mg/kg
Cu: ≤5 mg/kg
Fe: ≤5 mg/kg
K: ≤50 mg/kg
Li: ≤5 mg/kg
Mg: ≤5 mg/kg
Mn: ≤5 mg/kg
Mo: ≤5 mg/kg
Na: ≤50 mg/kg
Ni: ≤5 mg/kg
Pb: ≤5 mg/kg
Sr: ≤5 mg/kg
Zn: ≤5 mg/kg

λ

6 M in H2O

UV absorption

λ: 260 nm Amax: 0.03
λ: 280 nm Amax: 0.02

SMILES string

Cl[H].NC(N)=N

InChI

1S/CH5N3.ClH/c2-1(3)4;/h(H5,2,3,4);1H

InChI key

PJJJBBJSCAKJQF-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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Application

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. This can be used as the first step in refolding proteins or enzymes into their active form. Urea and dithiothreitol (DTT) may also be necessary.

Other Notes

In the extraction and fractionation by cesium sulfate density gradient centrifugation of bovine nasal cartilage proteoglycan; Induces subunit dissociation and unfolding of bovine liver glutamate dehydrogenase; Dissociation of apolipoproteins of insect lipophorin; Denaturation curve.

pictograms

Exclamation mark
GHS07

signalword

Warning

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 4 Inhalation - Acute Tox. 4 Oral - Eye Irrit. 2 - Skin Irrit. 2

Storage Class

11 - Combustible Solids

wgk_germany

WGK 1

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Faceshields, Gloves

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R Tashiro et al.
Biochimica et biophysica acta, 706(1), 129-135 (1982-08-23)
Equilibrium and kinetic measurements were carried out on the denaturation of bovine liver glutamate dehydrogenase (L-glutamate:NAD(P)+ oxidoreductase (deaminating), EC 1.4.1.3) induced by guanidine hydrochloride (Gdn-HCl) in 0.2 M phosphate buffer (pH 7.3) using two types of detection, light-scattering and circular
J K Kawooya et al.
Biochemistry, 28(16), 6658-6667 (1989-08-08)
The apolipoproteins of insect lipophorin were dissociated in guanidinium chloride and isolated by gel permeation chromatography. Over 98% of the total lipid in lipophorin was associated with apolipophorin I (apoLp-I), thus suggesting this apolipoprotein to be the lipid binding component
Determination and analysis of urea and guanidine hydrochloride denaturation curves.
C N Pace
Methods in enzymology, 131, 266-280 (1986-01-01)
F Bonnet et al.
Biochimica et biophysica acta, 623(1), 57-68 (1980-05-29)
A true isopycnic centrifugation method for the study of the bovine nasal cartilage proteoglycan polydispersity is presented. The use of cesium sulfate as gradient forming salt instead of cesium chloride allowed proteoglycan banding without any sedimentation at the bottom of
Caitriona McKeever et al.
Journal of medicinal chemistry, 56(3), 700-711 (2013-01-11)
Considering the strong DNA minor groove binding observed for our previous series of diaromatic symmetric and asymmetric guanidinium and 2-aminoimidazolinium derivatives, we report now the synthesis of new aminoalkyl derivatives of diaromatic guanidines with potential as DNA minor groove binders
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