Thermo Scientific Pierce Ammonium Persulfate (APS) is an oxidizing agent that is used with TEMED to catalyze the polymerization of acrylamide and bisacrylamide to prepare polyacrylamide gels for electrophoresis.
Ammonium persulfate (APS) is an oxidizing agent that is often used with tetramethylethylenediamine (TEMED, Part No. 17919) to catalyze the polymerization of acrylamide and bisacrylamide to prepare polyacrylamide gels for electrophoresis.
Details:
• Name: Ammonium persulfate (APS)
• Formula: (NH4)2S2O8
• CAS number: 7727-54-0
• Molecular weight: 228.2
• Purity: ≥98.0%
• Insolubles: ≤0.005%
