Oil Red O

Oil Red O

Differentiated adipocytes in a 3T3-L1 cell line stained with Oil Red O
Names
IUPAC name
1-(2,5-dimethyl-4-(2,5-dimethylphenyl) phenyldiazenyl) azonapthalen-2-ol
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
ChEBI
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ECHA InfoCard 100.013.906 Edit this at Wikidata
MeSH oil+red+O
UNII
  • InChI=1S/C26H24N4O/c1-16-9-10-17(2)22(13-16)27-28-23-14-19(4)24(15-18(23)3)29-30-26-21-8-6-5-7-20(21)11-12-25(26)31/h5-15,31H,1-4H3/b28-27+,30-29+ checkY
    Key: NPGIHFRTRXVWOY-XOXGWFOHSA-N checkY
  • InChI=1/C26H24N4O/c1-16-9-10-17(2)22(13-16)27-28-23-14-19(4)24(15-18(23)3)29-30-26-21-8-6-5-7-20(21)11-12-25(26)31/h5-15,31H,1-4H3/b28-27+,30-29+
    Key: NPGIHFRTRXVWOY-XOXGWFOHBH
  • Cc4cc(/N=N/c1cc(C)c(cc1C)/N=N/c2c3ccccc3ccc2O)c(C)cc4
Properties
C26H24N4O
Molar mass 408.49496
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Oil Red O (Solvent Red 27, Sudan Red 5B, C.I. 26125, C26H24N4O) is a lysochrome (fat-soluble dye) diazo dye used for staining of neutral triglycerides and lipids on frozen sections and some lipoproteins on paraffin sections. It has the appearance of a red powder with an absorbance maximum at 518 nanometers.[1]

  1. ^ Kraus, Nils A.; Ehebauer, Franziska; Zapp, Benedikt; et al. (2016). "Quantitative assessment of adipocyte differentiation in cell culture". Adipocyte. 5 (4): 351–358. doi:10.1080/21623945.2016.1240137. ISSN 2162-3945. PMC 5160397. PMID 27994948.