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Cacodylic acid, sodium salt trihydrate, CAS # 6131-99-3, is commonly used in research as a buffering agent in electron microscopy. | CAS: 6131-99-3 | C2H12AsNaO5 | 214.024 g/mol
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General Description
Cacodylic acid sodium salt trihydrate is one of the major methylated metabolites of ingested arsenical compounds in most animals
In in vivo experiments using rat model, cacodylic acid sodium salt trihydrate has been shown to promote cancer formation in the kidney, bladder, thyroid gland, and liver
Applications
Cacodylic acid sodium salt trihydrate is used in research as a buffer during the preparation and fixation of biological samples for transmission in electron microscopy
It has been used in buffers for formulating and optimizing screens
In chemical experiments, this compound has been used to introduce arsenic into proteins for single-wavelength anomalous diffraction phasing in crystallography techniques
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