Deuterium

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Deuterium

Hydrogen is a significant life element, and it is also the basis for a variety of biological macromolecules to form complex structures. There are three isotopic forms of hydrogen in nature, namely protium (¹H), deuterium (²H), and tritium (³H). The most common isotope of hydrogen is protium, which accounts natural abundance of more than 99% and is mainly distributed in water and various hydrocarbons. Deuterium is a rare, stable, non-radioactive hydrogen isotope used as a tracer atom in chemical and biological research. Tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, is extremely limited in nature.

Deuterium labeled compounds

A deuterium-labeled compound replaces ordinary hydrogen with stable isotope deuterium as a label. Deuterium has a geometric structure similar to hydrogen and variability in space. Therefore, deuterium-labeled compounds generally maintain biochemical activity and selectivity. As tracers, deuterium-labeled compounds play an important role in chemistry, medicine, pharmacy, and life science research.

• Chemistry: As a tracer, deuterium-labeled compounds have the functions of revealing the chemical reaction process, complex chemical structure, and chemical bond properties.
• Medicine: Deuterium-labeled compounds can be used in clinical medicine to study metabolism in vivo and in vitro.
• Pharmacy: Deuterium-labeled compounds can improve pharmacokinetic properties, reduce compound toxicity, enhance biological activity, and clarify the action mechanism of drugs to optimize new drug development processes and promote drug research.
• Life sciences: In many research works of life sciences, such as cytology, molecular biology, and cancer diagnosis and treatment, deuterium-labeled compounds are indispensable research tools.