8-Hydroxyquinoline (8-Quinolinol) CAS 148-24-3 Purity >99.0% (GC)

8-Hydroxyquinoline (8-Quinolinol) (CAS: 148-24-3) has a wide variety of uses. Primarily because of their metal chelating properties, 8-Hydroxyquinoline and its salts, halogenated derivatives, and metal complexes have been used as analytical reagents and as antimicrobial agents in medicine, fungicides, and insecticides. It is also used as a preservative in cosmetics and tobacco, a chemical intermediate in dye synthesis, and a precipitating reagent for uranium and other radioactive metals in nuclear power plant liquid waste effluent. It is used in nuclear medicine with indium-111. Used as a reagent for the determination of bismuth, magnesium, copper, zinc and organic element nitrogen; As a pharmaceutical intermediate, it is not only the raw material for the synthesis of kexieling, chloroiodoquinoline and paracetamol, but also the intermediate of dyes, pesticides and extractant. Pharmaceutical intermediates; Pesticide and dye intermediates. 8-Hydroxyquinoline is used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.  Its alcoholic solution is used in liquid bandages.  It is used to prepare tris(8-hydroxyquinolinato)aluminum, which finds application as a component of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED's).  It is also used as a reagent and as a stabilizer of hydrogen peroxide in a rocket fuel oxidizer.  It is used as a chelating agent and used as a carrier for radio-indium for diagnostic purposes.  Its halogenated derivatives are used as anti-infective agents and oral antiamebics. 8-Hydroxyquinoline is a monoprotic bidentate chelating agent, exhibits antiseptic, disinfectant, and pesticide properties, functioning as a transcription inhibitor.