Eosin Y

Synonym(s):2?,4?,5?,7?-Tetrabromofluorescein, Acid Red 87, Bromo acid J. TS, XL, or XX, Bromofluorescein, Bronze Bromo ES, Eosin yellowish, Solvent red 43

Properties

assay

75% (HPLC)

Quality Level

100

form

powder

solubility

spirit: soluble

?_max

524 nm

application(s)

diagnostic assay manufacturing
hematology
histology

storage temp.

room temp

SMILES string

Oc1c(Br)cc2c(Oc3c(Br)c(O)c(Br)cc3C24OC(=O)c5ccccc45)c1Br

InChI

1S/C20H8Br4O5/c21-11-5-9-17(13(23)15(11)25)28-18-10(6-12(22)16(26)14(18)24)20(9)8-4-2-1-3-7(8)19(27)29-20/h1-6,25-26H

InChI key

DBZJJPROPLPMSN-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Description

General description

Eosin Y is a xanthene dye and is used for the differential staining of connective tissue and cytoplasm. In histopathology, it is applied as a counterstain after hematoxylin and before methylene blue. It is also used as a background stain, thereby giving contrast to the nuclear stains.

Application

Eosin Y has been used as a reagent in the preparation of Nigrosin-Eosin (NE) stain and is used in hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining technique to visualize alginate.