甘氨酸

中文名称：甘氨酸
中文别名：氨基乙酸; 氨基醋酸;
英文名称：Glycine
英文别名：2-aminoacetic acid; carboxymethylamine; aminomethylcarboxylic acid;
CAS号：56-40-6
分子式：C2H5NO2

分子量：75.06660

Product properties: Glycine is a colorless, sweet-tasting crystalline solid. It is the only achiral proteinogenic amino acid. It can fit into hydrophilic or hydrophobic environments, due to its minimal side chain of only one hydrogen atom. The acyl radical is glycyl.

Functions:

1.Animal and human foods

As an additive in pet food and animal feed, in foods and pharmaceuticals as a sweetener/taste enhancer, or as a component of food supplements and protein drinks.

2.Cosmetics and miscellaneous applications

Glycine serves as a buffering agent in antacids, analgesics, antiperspirants, cosmetics, and toiletries.A variety of industrial and chemical processes use glycine or its derivatives, such as the production of fertilizers and metal complexing agents.

3.Chemical feedstock

Glycine is an intermediate in the synthesis of a variety of chemical products. It is used in the manufacture of the herbicide glyphosate.

4.Industrial Use

It is widely used as an intermediate of the medicine such as thiamphenicol, as an intermediate in the production of glyphosate, as a solvent for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the fertilizer industry, and as the galvanizing solution in electroplating.

1.Food grade Glycine is mainly used as nutritional supplement and food additives.

2.Pharmaceutical grade Glycine is mainly used as nutrition transfusion of amino acid, Vc stabilizer.

3. Industrial grade is mainly used inorganic synthesis, metal complex.