Methylene blue - methylene blue

Japanese: メチレンブルー - めちれんぶるー(英語表記)methylene blue
Methylene blue - methylene blue

A basic dye with a thiazine skeleton, it is a beautiful blue dye that was synthesized by H. Caro of Germany in 1876. It can be synthesized from 4-aminodimethylaniline and sodium thiosulfate, or by dimethylamination of phenothiazine. It appears as a dark greenish blue crystal or powder. It dissolves well in water and ethanol (ethyl alcohol). It can be used to dye silk and wool in a neutral bath. Cotton can also be dyed with tannin mordant. However, it is sensitive to sunlight and has little practical value as a dye. It becomes colorless leucomethylene blue when reduced, but reversibly returns to methylene blue when oxidized. For this reason, it is used as an oxidation-reduction indicator. It is also used in medicine as a disinfectant, in functional testing agents, and as a biological stain.

[Tobita Mitsuhiko]

[Reference] | Basic dyes | Calo | Redox indicators
The structure of methylene blue
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The structure of methylene blue


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Japanese:

チアジン骨格をもった塩基性染料で、1876年にドイツのH・カロによって合成された美しい青色の染料である。4-アミノジメチルアニリンとチオ硫酸ナトリウムから合成する方法と、フェノチアジンをジメチルアミノ化する方法がある。暗緑青色の結晶または粉末。水、エタノール(エチルアルコール)によく溶ける。中性浴から絹、羊毛を染めることができる。また、木綿はタンニン媒染で染色可能である。しかし日光に弱く、染料としての実用価値は低い。還元により無色のロイコメチレンブルーleucomethylene blueとなるが、酸化により可逆的にメチレンブルーに戻る。このゆえに、酸化還元指示薬としての利用がある。このほか、殺菌剤としての医薬や機能検査薬、生体染色剤などにも利用される。

[飛田満彦]

[参照項目] | 塩基性染料 | カロ | 酸化還元指示薬
メチレンブルーの構造
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メチレンブルーの構造


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