rhodamine B (CHEBI:52334)

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ChEBI Name	rhodamine B

ChEBI ID	CHEBI:52334

Definition	An organic chloride salt having N-[9-(2-carboxyphenyl)-6-(diethylamino)-3H-xanthen-3-ylidene]-N-ethylethanaminium as the counterion. An amphoteric dye commonly used as a fluorochrome.

Stars	This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.

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Formula

C28H31ClN2O3

Net Charge

Average Mass

479.01000

Monoisotopic Mass

478.20232

InChI

InChI=1S/C28H30N2O3.ClH/c1-5-29(6-2)19-13-15-23-25(17-19)33-26-18-20(30(7-3)8-4)14-16-24(26)27(23)21-11-9-10-12-22(21)28(31)32;/h9-18H,5-8H2,1-4H3;1H

InChIKey

PYWVYCXTNDRMGF-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

[Cl-].CCN(CC)c1ccc2c(-c3ccccc3C(O)=O)c3ccc(cc3oc2c1)=[N+](CC)CC

Roles Classification
Application(s):	fluorochrome A fluorescent dye used to stain biological specimens. fluorescent probe A role played by a fluorescent molecular entity used to study the microscopic environment by fluorescence spectroscopy. histological dye A dye used in microscopic or electron microscopic examination of cells and tissues to give contrast and to highlight particular features of interest, such as nuclei and cytoplasm. dye (via xanthene dye )

ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing	rhodamine B (CHEBI:52334) has part rhodamine B(1+) (CHEBI:52896) rhodamine B (CHEBI:52334) has role fluorescent probe (CHEBI:39442) rhodamine B (CHEBI:52334) has role fluorochrome (CHEBI:51217) rhodamine B (CHEBI:52334) has role histological dye (CHEBI:77178) rhodamine B (CHEBI:52334) is a organic chloride salt (CHEBI:36094) rhodamine B (CHEBI:52334) is a xanthene dye (CHEBI:37929)

IUPAC Name

N-[9-(2-carboxyphenyl)-6-(diethylamino)-3H-xanthen-3-ylidene]-N-ethylethanaminium chloride

Last Modified

24 September 2015