Salicylhydroxaminsäure, 99 %, Thermo Scientific Chemicals

It is widely used for a variety of roles in biology and medicine as a chelating therapy. It inhibits bacterial or fungi growth by interfering with iron uptake. It is also active as a inhibitor of enzyme involved in tumour growths. These compounds are used as extractants for the separation of valuable metals or minerals including copper, lead, gold, other rare earth metals and kaolin. Hydroxamic acids are also used to produce corresponding isocyanates by dehydration followed by rearrangement reaction. It is also used as a common ligand utilized in the synthesis of metallacrowns.

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