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Rhodamine B
Introduction
Molecular Formula: C28H31N2O3Cl
Molecular Weight: 479.02 grams per mole
CAS Number: 81-88-9
SMILES structure: Template:SMILES
Rhodamine B is used in biology as a staining fluorescent dye, sometimes in combination with auramine O, as the auramine-rhodamine stain to demonstrate acid-fast organisms, notably Mycobacterium.
Rhodamine B is tunable around 610 nm when used as a laser dye.
Rhodamine B is also called Rhodamine 610, C.I. Pigment Violet 1, Basic Violet 10, or C.I. 45170.
In California, Rhodamine B is suspected to be carcinogenic and thus products containing it must contain a warning on its label.[1]
- ↑ http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Visual_Art/documents/NavalJelly.pdf, Naval Jelly msds with Rhodamine B