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D-Sorbitol

liquid, tested according to Ph. Eur.

Synonym(s):

Sorbitolum liquidum non cristallisabile, D-Glucitol

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C6H14O6
CAS Number:
50-70-4
Molecular Weight:
182.17
Beilstein:
1721899
EC Number:
200-061-5
MDL number:
MFCD00004708
UNSPSC Code:
12352201
PubChem Substance ID:
329770356
NACRES:
NA.21

Agency

USP/NF
tested according to Ph. Eur.

Quality Level

100

vapor density

<1 (vs air)

vapor pressure

<0.1 mmHg ( 25 °C)

Assay

72-92%

form

liquid

impurities

28-32% water

color

white

useful pH range

5.0-7 (25 °C, 182 g/L)

mp

98-100 °C (lit.)

solubility

water: soluble 182 g/L at 20 °C (68 °F)

SMILES string

OC[C@@H](O)[C@@H](O)[C@H](O)[C@@H](O)CO

InChI

1S/C6H14O6/c7-1-3(9)5(11)6(12)4(10)2-8/h3-12H,1-2H2/t3-,4+,5-,6-/m1/s1

InChI key

FBPFZTCFMRRESA-JGWLITMVSA-N

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Storage Class Code

11 - Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 1

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

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Arlene E Dent et al.
PloS one, 3(10), e3557-e3557 (2008-10-30)
Antibodies that impair Plasmodium falciparum merozoite invasion and intraerythrocytic development are one of several mechanisms that mediate naturally acquired immunity to malaria. Attempts to correlate anti-malaria antibodies with risk of infection and morbidity have yielded inconsistent results. Growth inhibition assays
Vera Bril et al.
Diabetes care, 27(5), 1160-1163 (2004-04-28)
Nerve sorbitol levels have been measured in sural nerve biopsy samples from patients with diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy in several studies using different methods and measurement units. In this study, we compared the results of sorbitol assays to determine the required
G Molino et al.
The Journal of laboratory and clinical medicine, 131(5), 393-405 (1998-05-30)
D-Sorbitol (SOR) is safe, is easy to measure, and has an exceptionally high extraction ratio in the normal liver of 0.93+/-0.05 (mean+/-SD). Together with the general interest in hepatic hemodynamics, these facts motivated us to review the usefulness of this
J M van Griensven et al.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, 58(6), 631-640 (1995-12-01)
To examine the effect of diabetes mellitus on the pharmacokinetics of tolrestat and to investigate its effect on red blood cell sorbitol levels according to a new pharmacodynamic model for this class of drugs. Single and multiple doses of tolrestat
Arie Gruzman et al.
Journal of medicinal chemistry, 51(24), 8096-8108 (2008-12-04)
Type 2 diabetes mellitus has reached epidemic proportions; therefore, the search for novel antihyperglycemic drugs is intense. We have discovered that D-xylose increases the rate of glucose transport in a non-insulin-dependent manner in rat and human myotubes in vitro. Due
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