Features

• DMSO is a highly polar substance that can be used as an industrial solvent for organic and inorganic chemicals
• It is also used as a protectant during cold storage of living cells. It is also useful for the oxidation of thiols and disulfides to sulfonic acids
• Supercools easily and remelts slowly at room temperature
• Solidified product can be re-liquified by warming to room temperature without detriment to the product
• DMSO has been used as a medium to prepare a chemiluminescence reagent that can be a substitute to commercially-available enhanced chemiluminescence kits for use in immunoblotting technique
• Molecular formula: C2H6SO
• Formula weight: 78.13 (anhydrous) M
• DMSO is soluble in water, ethanol, acetone, ether, benzene and chloroform
• DMSO reacts violently with acyl halides, metal alkoxides, metal oxosalts, perchloric acid and sodium hydroxide

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