• British Pharmacopoeia Volume V
  • Appendices
  • Appendix I A. General Reagents

Agarose for Chromatography

Agarose for Chromatography (9012-36-6)

Chromatographic reagent grade of commerce.

Swollen beads 60 µm to 140 µm in diameter presented as a 4% suspension in water. It is used in size-exclusion chromatography for the separation of proteins with relative molecular masses of 6 × 104 to 20 × 106 and of polysaccharides with relative molecular masses of 3 × 103 to 5 × 106.