Re: Oxine
- To: <propagation@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: Oxine
- From: "* S* <g*@swbell.net>
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 18:55:06 -0600
Hydroxyquinoline is a photographic developer in common use. You can get it
at any specialist camera store Geoff
-----Original Message-----
From: Merrill E. Speeter <kalphal@mich.com>
To: propagation@mallorn.com <propagation@mallorn.com>
Cc: kalphal@mich.com <kalphal@mich.com>
Date: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 2:57 PM
Subject: Oxine
>The Merck Index indicates oxine is 8-hydroxyquinoline and it appears
>this is sold in Canada as the benzoate salt. Eastman Kodak and Aldrich
>Chemical both sell 8-hydroxyquinoline as the hydrochloride but these
>companies will not sell to individuals. An academic contact got the
>chemical for me as I have used it for years on orchid seedlings just out
>of flask. The OAS Handbook of Orchid Pests and Diseases 1990 issue
>recommends the agent for a variety of fungal infections.
>
>Oxine is a phenol and is thus related to ortho-phenylphenol which was
>for years the active agent in Lysol but seems to be replaced by
>quaternary ammonium agents similar to Physan. One wonders why as Lysol
>was for years a standard antibacterial. Ortho-phenylphenol is the active
>ingredient of Natriphene (Dowcide) an agricultural fungicide.
>
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