Crystals from alcoholether. Soluble in water and alcohol.
Biochemical research; medicine.
hepatoprotectant, anticholesteremic
ChEBI: An optically active form of ornithine having L-configuration.
Mutation data reported. When heated to decomposition it emits toxic vapors of NOx.
Crystallise L-ornithine from water containing 1mM EDTA (to remove metal ions). [Perrin J Chem Soc 3125 1958, Rivard Biochemical Preparations 3 97 1955, Greenstein & Winitz The Chemistry of the Amino Acids J. Wiley, Vol 3 pp 2477-2491 1961, Beilstein 4 III 1346, 4 IV 2644.]
