General description
Urea is a colorless, odorless solid. It has prism-like crystals. It forms insoluble nitrate salts with nitric acid and oxalate salts with oxalic acid. On reaction with alkanes or substituted alkanes, it affords crystal-lattice inclusion compounds.
Urea can be prepared from ammonia and carbon-dioxide, via Haber-Bosch process. It can also be used to prepare urea-formaldehyde resins, via condensation reaction.
Application
Urea has been used in the following studies:
- Synthesis of SnO2 nanoparticles.
- Synthesis of urethanes, ureides and semicarbazides.
- Denaturation of protein isolated from Saccharomyces cerevisiae Y15696 strain
- Protein electrophoretic studies.
Used for the denaturation of proteins and as a mild solubilization agent for insoluble or denatured proteins. Useful for renaturing proteins from samples already denatured with 6 M guanidine chloride such as inclusion bodies. May be used with guanidine hydrochloride and dithiothreitrol (DTT) in the refolding of denatured proteins into their native or active form.
- UPC:
- 51263004
- Condition:
- New
- Weight:
- 1.00 Ounces
- HazmatClass:
- No
- WeightUOM:
- LB
- MPN:
- 15604-2.5KG
