Re: Ethylenimine

David A. Schooley (schooley@unr.edu)
Wed, 1 Apr 1998 08:36:03 -0800

Lowell-
Use Aminoethyl-8(TM) reagent from Pierce instead- p. 155 of current
catalog. Chemical name isN-[Iodoethyl]trifluoroacetamide. At pH 8.1-8.6,
the sulfhydryl group is aminoethylated and the trifluoroacetyl group
hydrolyzed in a simple, safe, one-pot reaction.

David

David A. Schooley
Dept. of Biochemistry/330
Univ. of Nevada
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