2,4-Dinitrophenylhydrazine is the organic compound C₆H₃(NO₂)₂NHNH₂. DNPH is a red to orange solid. It is a substituted hydrazine. The solid is relatively sensitive to shock and friction. For this reason DNPH is usually handled as a wet powder.
Monothioglycerol is a thiol, also known as 3-Mercaptopropane-1,2-diol and thioglycerol. It's a glycerol in which one of the primary hydroxy groups is replaced by a thiol group. Monothioglycerol is used as a matrix in liquid secondary ion mass spectrometry and fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry. It's also used as a pharmaceutical excipient for various parenteral applications, such as microspheres, suspensions, solutions, and lyophilized injections. It's…
Pyruvic acid is a 3-carbon acid that plays a central role in sugar metabolism. It's the end product of glycolysis, a process that breaks down glucose into two pyruvate molecules.
