Light Green SF Yellowish

Property Data
Common name
Suggested name
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C.I. number
C.I. name
Class
Ionisation
Solubility aqueous
Solubility ethanol
Absorption maximum
 
 
Colour
Empirical formula
Formula weight
 Light green
Light green SF yellowish
Acid green
Lissamine green SF
42095
Acid green 5
Triarylmethane
Acid
20%
0.8%
630, 422 (Aldrich)
628 (Gurr)
629-634, 428 (Conn)
Green
C37H34N2O9S3Na2
792.9

Light green is the standard dye in North American for staining collagen in contrast to acid fuchsin in Masson's trichrome. It is a component of Papanicolaou's EA series in conjunction with eosin Y and bismarck brown. It is also used extensively in plant histology. The dye's major drawback is that it fades. If it is important that fading be avoided it may be replaced with Fast green FCF, a closely related, but more brilliant, green dye.

 

Reference
R. D. Lillie.
Conn's Biological Stains
Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD., U.S.A.

Susan Budavari, Editor, (1996)
The Merck Index, Ed. 12
Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA

Edward Gurr, (1971)
Synthetic dyes in biology, medicine and chemistry
Academic Press, London, England.

 


 
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