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2,4-Dinitrophenol

Catalog No. DB04528 Name DrugBank
CAS Number 51-28-5 Website http://www.ualberta.ca/
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SYNONYMS

IUPAC name
2,4-dinitrophenol
IUPAC Traditional name
α-dinitrophenol

DATABASE IDS

CAS Number 51-28-5
PubChem CID 1493
PubChem SID 46507895

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Description (English)
Item Information
Drug Groups experimental
Description A toxic dye, chemically related to trinitrophenol (picric acid), used in biochemical studies of oxidative processes where it uncouples oxidative phosphorylation. It is also used as a metabolic stimulant. (Stedman, 26th ed)

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