Gallocyanin

Property Data
Common name
Suggested name
Other names
C.I. number
C.I. name
Class
Ionisation
Solubility aqueous
Solubility ethanol
Absorption maximum
Colour
Empirical formula
Formula weight
 Gallocyanin
Gallocyanin
–
51030
Mordant blue 10
Oxazin
Basic
Poor
Soluble
636 (Conn), 601 (Aldrich)
Blue
C15H13N2O5Cl
336.7

When mordanted with iron alum, gallocyanin makes a useful nuclear stain, suitable as an alum hematoxylin substitute in H&E. Einarson used it with chrome alum to demonstrate nucleic acids.

 

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

Aldrich chemical catalogue, 1992
Aldrich Chemical Company, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

 


 
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