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Also known as Yellow 5

Tartrazine is a synthetic lemon yellow azo dye primarily used as a food coloring. It is also known as E number E102, C.I. 19140, FD&C Yellow 5, Yellow 5 Lake, Acid Yellow 23, Food Yellow 4, and trisodium 1-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-4-(4-sulfonatophenylazo)-5-pyrazolone-3-carboxylate.

Chemical data

Formula
C16H9N4Na3O9S2
Molecular weight
534.4 g/mol
IUPAC name
trisodium;5-oxo-1-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-4-[(4-sulfonatophenyl)diazenyl]-4H-pyrazole-3-carboxylate
SMILES
C1=CC(=CC=C1N=NC2C(=NN(C2=O)C3=CC=C(C=C3)S(=O)(=O)[O-])C(=O)[O-])S(=O)(=O)[O-].[Na+].[Na+].[Na+]
InChIKey
UJMBCXLDXJUMFB-UHFFFAOYSA-K
Polar surface area
229 Ų
H-bond donors
0
H-bond acceptors
12
Formal charge
0

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Encyclopedic overview

28 sections
Contents
  • Production
  • History
  • Products containing tartrazine
  • Foods
  • Personal care and cosmetics products
  • Medications
  • Other products
  • Chemistry
  • Potential health effects on humans
  • Food intolerance, sensitivity, and allergies
  • Asthma
  • Food intolerance and ADHD-like behavior
  • Reproductive
  • Regulation
  • North America
  • Canada
  • United States
  • Europe
  • European Union
  • Austria and Germany
  • Norway
  • United Kingdom
  • Other uses
  • 3D printing
  • Tartrazine-enabled tissue clearing
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Tartrazine is a synthetic lemon yellow azo dye primarily used as a food coloring. It is also known as E number E102, C.I. 19140, FD&C Yellow 5, Yellow 5 Lake, Acid Yellow 23, Food Yellow 4, and trisodium 1-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-4-(4-sulfonatophenylazo)-5-pyrazolone-3-carboxylate.

Tartrazine is a commonly used coloring agent all over the world, mainly for yellow, and can also be used with brilliant blue FCF (FD&C Blue 1, E133) or green S (E142) to produce various green shades. It serves as a dye for wool and silks, a colorant in food, drugs and cosmetics and an adsorption-elution indicator for chloride estimations in biochemistry.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tartrazine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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