Malachite Green

[Cynthia S Powers <cyn at metronet_com>]

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>Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 07:50:09 -0400
>To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
>From: John Anthony <anthony at pop_uky.edu>
>Subject: Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V2 #975
>
>>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 23:52:22 -0700 (PDT)
>>From: "A. Inniss" <andrewi at u_washington.edu>
>>Subject: Re: Ick remedies/malachite and copper
>>
>>	Well, I'm sure our resident chemists will give a more complete
>>explanation here, but to say malachite doesn't contain copper is akin to
>>saying bauxite doesn't contain aluminum ;-)!
>
>
>	Well, the malachite green I've always worked with has the formula
>C23H25N2/2HC2O4 (the oxalate salt).  No copper there.  The parent form >is a bis(dimethylamino)phenyl carbinol.  So unless the malachite green >you are using is some sort of copper salt (which would be odd, since the
>chromophore is cationic, as is copper ion), it does not contain any copper.
>
>	I could pop the structure onto my website, if anyone is interested.
>
>
>
>John Anthony
>Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky
>606-257-7058
>anthony at pop_uky.edu
>http://www.chem.uky.edu/research/anthony
>
>

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