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PHR1350

Cytosine

Pharmaceutical Secondary Standard; Certified Reference Material

Synonym(s):

Cytosine, 4-Amino-2-hydroxypyrimidine, 4-Aminopyrimidin-2-(1H)-one

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About This Item

Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C4H5N3O
CAS Number:
71-30-7
Molecular Weight:
111.10
UNSPSC Code:
41116107
NACRES:
NA.24
PubChem Substance ID:
329823334
EC Number:
200-749-5
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
2637
MDL number:
MFCD00006034
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Quality Level

300

grade

certified reference material, pharmaceutical secondary standard

agency

traceable to USP 1162148

API family

cytosine

CofA

current certificate can be downloaded

technique(s)

HPLC: suitable, gas chromatography (GC): suitable

mp

>300 °C (lit.)

application(s)

pharmaceutical (small molecule)

format

neat

storage temp.

2-30°C

SMILES string

NC1=NC(=O)NC=C1

InChI

1S/C4H5N3O/c5-3-1-2-6-4(8)7-3/h1-2H,(H3,5,6,7,8)

InChI key

OPTASPLRGRRNAP-UHFFFAOYSA-N

General description

Pharmaceutical secondary standards for application in quality control, provide pharma laboratories and manufacturers with a convenient and cost-effective alternative to the preparation of in-house working standards.

Application

Cytosine may be used as a pharmaceutical reference standard for the determination of the analyte in pharmaceutical formulations by capillary zone electrophoresis and chromatography techniques.
These Secondary Standards are qualified as Certified Reference Materials. These are suitable for use in several analytical applications including but not limited to pharma release testing, pharma method development for qualitative and quantitative analyses, food and beverage quality control testing, and other calibration requirements.

Analysis Note

These secondary standards offer multi-traceability to the US and EP primary standards, where they are available.

Other Notes

This Certified Reference Material (CRM) is produced and certified in accordance with ISO 17034 and ISO/IEC 17025. All information regarding the use of this CRM can be found on the certificate of analysis.
To see an example of a Certificate of Analysis for this material enter LRAA1102 in the slot below. This is an example certificate only and may not be the lot that you receive.

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Storage Class

11 - Combustible Solids

wgk

WGK 1

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

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Development and validation of a procedure for the determination of minoxidil in hair-regrowth formulations using two variants of capillary zone electrophoresis
Patterson SC, et al.
Il Farmaco (Societa Chimica Italiana : 1989), 60(6-7), 547-554 (2005)
Characterization of alkaloids in Sophora flavescens Ait. by high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry
Liu G, et al.
Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 54(5), 1065-1072 (2011)
Yong Liu et al.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979), 63(4), 827-838 (2014-01-15)
Analysis of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) at single-base resolution has been largely limited to studies of stem cells or developmental stages. Given the potential importance of epigenetic events in hypertension, we have analyzed 5hmC and 5-methylcytosine (5mC) at single-base resolution in the
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Global Trade Item Number

SKUGTIN
PHR1350-500MG04061834416036