Binary ethylenimine
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Binary ethylenimine
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Binary ethylenimine (BEI) is a preparation of aziridine. It can be produced by heating bromoethylamine hydrobromide or 2-aminoethyl hydrogen sulfate in the presence of sodium hydroxide. It contains at least one three-membered ring which is very reactive because of the ring strain. It is used to inactivate the foot-and-mouth disease virus in vaccines for cattle, as well as other viruses and mycoplasma in blood samples. Contrary to early assumptions that ethylenimines only modified nucleic acids,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_ethylenimine
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2024-01-02T03:47:24Z
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