How about the applications of glycine?

What is glycine?

Glycine is a non-essential amino acid for the human body. It has both acidic and basic functional groups in the molecule. It can be ionized in water and has strong hydrophilicity. However, it is a non-polar amino acid and is soluble in polar solvents, but insoluble It is a non-polar solvent and has a higher boiling point and melting point. Glycine can present different molecular forms by adjusting the acidity and alkalinity of the aqueous solution.

The solid glycine is white monoclinic or hexagonal crystals or white crystalline powder, odorless and non-toxic; it is easily soluble in water and almost insoluble in ethanol or ether. Boiling point: 233°C, melting point: 240°C, used in the pharmaceutical industry, biochemical tests and organic synthesis. It is the simplest structure in the amino acid series.

The applicatioins of glycine are as follows:

1. Food use

Used as a biochemical reagent, used in medicine, feed and food additives, used as a non-toxic decarbonizer in the nitrogen fertilizer industry; nutritional supplements, mainly used in flavoring, etc.; it has a certain inhibitory effect on the reproduction of Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli. Antioxidant effect (using its metal chelation effect) added to cream, cheese, margarine can prolong the shelf life by 3 to 4 times.

2. Medical use

Used as a medicine for medical microorganisms and biochemical amino acid metabolism research; used as a chlortetracycline buffer, anti-Parkinson’s disease drug L-dopa\vitamin B6\ and threonine and other amino acids synthetic raw materials; combined with aspirin, can be used Reduce its irritation to the stomach; as a nitrogen source for generating non-essential amino acids, it is added to the mixed amino acid injection.

3. Agricultural use

It is mainly used as an additive and attractant to increase amino acids in feeds for poultry, livestock and poultry, especially pets. Used as an additive for hydrolyzed protein, as a synergist for hydrolyzed protein; used in the production of pesticides to synthesize pyrethroid insecticide intermediate glycine ethyl ester hydrochloride, and can also synthesize fungicide iprodione and herbicide solid grass Glyphosate.

4. Industrial use

Used in the pharmaceutical industry, biochemical tests and organic synthesis; used as the raw material of cephalosporins, thiamphenicol intermediates, synthetic imidazole acetic acid intermediates, etc.

5. Reagent use

Used in peptide synthesis, used as amino acid protection monomer; used in the preparation of tissue culture medium, copper, gold and silver inspection; because glycine is a zwitterion with amino and carboxyl groups, it has strong buffering properties and is often used for preparation Buffer.

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