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V900483

Trizma® base

≥99%, crystalline powder, reagent grade, Vetec™

Synonym(s):

2-Amino-2-(hydroxymethyl)-1,3-propanediol, THAM, Tris base, Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane, Trometamol

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Linear Formula:
NH2C(CH2OH)3
CAS Number:
77-86-1
Molecular Weight:
121.14
UNSPSC Code:
12161700
PubChem Substance ID:
329829884
EC Number:
201-064-4
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
741883
MDL number:
MFCD00004679

Product Name

Trizma® base, Vetec™, reagent grade, ≥99%

InChI

1S/C4H11NO3/c5-4(1-6,2-7)3-8/h6-8H,1-3,5H2

InChI key

LENZDBCJOHFCAS-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES string

NC(CO)(CO)CO

grade

reagent grade

description

aminopeptidase substrate

product line

Vetec™

assay

≥99%

form

crystalline powder

pH

10.5-12

useful pH range

7-9

pKa (25 °C)

8.1

bp

219-220 °C/10 mmHg (lit.)

mp

167-172 °C (lit.)

solubility

water: 0.667 g/mL, clear, colorless to faintly yellow

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Application

Trizma® base can be used as a buffer:
  • In the evanescent absorption analysis of NADPH.
  • In the autoxidation studies of oxymyoglobin.

General description

Trizma® base is a basimetric standard used in biochemistry and molecular biology. It may be used as a buffer or as a component of mixed buffer formulations. It is essentially stable, relatively non-hygroscopic and has a high equivalent weight.

Other Notes

The pH values of all buffers are temperature- and concentration-dependent. For Tris buffers, pH increases about 0.03 unit per °C decrease in temperature, and decreases 0.03-0.05 unit per ten-fold dilution.
For precise applications, use a carefully calibrated pH meter with a glass/calomel combination electrode.

Legal Information

Trizma is a registered trademark of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Vetec is a trademark of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Storage Class

11 - Combustible Solids

wgk

WGK 1

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

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Preparation of buffers for use in enzyme studies
Handbook of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2010)
Tapered fibers for cell studies
Reviews in Fluorescence (2005)
Autoxidation of native oxymyoglobin. Kinetic analysis of the pH profile
Shikama K and Sugawara Y
European Journal of Biochemistry, 91(2), 407-413 (1978)
Tri (hydroxymethyl) aminomethane as Acidimetric Standard.
Fossum J, et al.
Analytical Chemistry, 23(3), 491-493 (1951)
Sylvain Clède et al.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), 48(62), 7729-7731 (2012-06-29)
A rhenium tris-carbonyl derivative has been designed to couple infrared and luminescent detection in cells. Both spectroscopies are consistent with one another; they point out the reliability of the present SCoMPI (for Single Core Multimodal Probe for Imaging) for bimodal
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