This Thermo Scientific Chemicals brand product was originally part of the Acros Organics product portfolio. Some documentation and label information may refer to the legacy brand. The original Acros Organics product / item code or SKU reference has not changed as a part of the brand transition to Thermo Scientific Chemicals.
General Description
- Cacodylic acid sodium salt trihydrate is one of the major methylated metabolites of ingested arsenical compounds in most animals
- In in vivo experiments using rat model, cacodylic acid sodium salt trihydrate has been shown to promote cancer formation in the kidney, bladder, thyroid gland, and liver
Applications
- Cacodylic acid sodium salt trihydrate is used in research as a buffer during the preparation and fixation of biological samples for transmission in electron microscopy
- It has been used in buffers for formulating and optimizing screens
- In chemical experiments, this compound has been used to introduce arsenic into proteins for single-wavelength anomalous diffraction phasing in crystallography techniques