2-Oxazolidinone, 99%, Thermo Scientific Chemicals

2-Oxazolidinone is used as antimicrobials, in organisms it act as a protein synthesis inhibitors, targeting an early step involving the binding of N-formylmethionyl-tRNA to the ribosome. They are used for chiral synthesis. It has been used as an ethanolamine equivalent, also behaves as an aziridine equivalent as in the conversion of thiophenols or amines to their aminoethyl derivatives.

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