New fuchsine

New fuchsine
New fuchsine

New fuchsine, new fuchsin, Magenta III, Basic Violet 2, or C.I. 42520 (from German "fuchs", fox) is a magenta dye having chemical formula C22H24N3Cl. It is one of the four components of basic fuchsine, and one of the two that are available as single dyes[1]. (The other is pararosaniline.) New fuchsine can be used for staining acid fast organism, e.g. by Ziehl-Neelsen stain, and for making Schiff's reagent. As a primary amine, the dye can be diazotized in the laboratory, and the resulting diazonium salt used as a trapping agent in enzyme histochemistry[2].

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  1. ^ Horobin RW, Kiernan JA (2002) Conn's Biological Stains, 10th ed. Oxford: BIOS.
  2. ^ Lojda Z, Gossrau R, Schiebler TH (1979) Enzyme Histochemistry. A Laboratory Manual. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.