chelating agent

Pentetic Acid (Detarex) is an edetate and a chelating agent used in preparing radiopharmaceuticals.

Alizarin Complexone (Alizarin-3-methyliminodiacetic acid) is an inhibitor of Rous-associated virus 2 reverse transcriptase. Alizarin Complexone can be used as a calcium-tracer and a chelating agent for biological studies.

3,5-DiBr-PAESA is an extremely sensitive chelating agent used to determine silver (I) in water when other interfering ions are absent. It is also applicable for the determination of copper (II) [1].

EDTA-AM (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, acetoxymethyl ester) represents the membrane-permeable version of the metal chelator EDTA. By incubating live cells with EDTA-AM, they passively absorb this compound. After entering the cell, cytoplasmic esterases break down the AM esters, liberating the active chelating agent EDTA that sequesters metal ions internally. The presence of EDTA-AM in cells leads to the cessation of mitotic progression and the decondensation of chromosomes [1] [2].