Thionine
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Thionine, also known as Lauth's violet, is the salt of a heterocyclic compound. It was firstly synthesised by Charles Lauth. A variety of salts are known including the chloride and acetate, called respectively thionine chloride and thionine acetate. The dye is structurally related to methylene blue, which also features a phenothiazine core.[1] The dye's name is frequently misspelled with omission of the e, and is not to be confused with the plant protein thionin. The -ine ending indicates that the compound is an amine.[2][3]
Dye properties and use
Thionine is a strongly staining metachromatic dye, which is widely used for biological staining.[4] Thionine can also be used in place of Schiff reagent in quantitative Feulgen staining of DNA. It can also be used to mediate electron transfer in microbial fuel cells.[5] Thionine is a pH-dependent redox indicator with E0 = 0.06 at pH 7.0. Its reduced form, leuco-thionine, is colorless.
When both the amines are dimethylated, the product tetramethyl thionine is the famous methylene blue, and the intermediates are Azure C (Monomethyl thionine), Azure A (when one of the amines is dimethylated and the other remains a primary amine), and Azure B (Trimethyl thionine). When methylene blue is "polychromed" by ripening (oxidized in solution or metabolized by fungal contamination,[6] as originally noted in the thesis of Dr D L Romanowski in 1890s), it forms thionine and all the Azure intermediates.[7][8]
Notes and references
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- ↑ Webster's Third New International Dictionary. G & C Merriam Co. 1976, p.2377.
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- ↑ Dako Education Guide - Special Stains and H & E ” second edition Chapter 19: On Chemical Reactions and Staining Mechanisms by John A. Kiernan, Subsection What is Giemsa’s stain and how does it color blood cells, bacteria and chromosomes? p172 Template:Webarchive
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- ↑ Marshall, PN (1978) Romanowsky-type stains in haematology. Histochemical Journal 10: 1-29.
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