Chlorophyllin copper sodium salt, also known as copper chlorophyllin sodium salt, is a metal porphyrin with high stability. It is commonly used for food addition, textile use, cosmetics, medicine, and photoelectric conversion. The chlorophyll contained in copper chlorophyll sodium salt can prevent or alleviate cardiovascular diseases, cancer and other diseases, and can be used as a coloring agent in cosmetics and textiles. In medicine, chlorophyll copper sodium salt can inhibit the activity of carcinogens, degrade carcinogenic substances, can be antioxidant, free radical scavenging, and also can be placed in cigarette filters to clear the harmful substances in the smoke and reduce the harm to human body.

Chlorophyllin copper sodium salt (sodium coppe chlorophylin) is a dark green powder, is a natural green plant tissue, such as silkworm dung, clover, alfalfa, bamboo and other plant leaves as raw materials, extracted with acetone, methanol, ethanol, petroleum ether and other organic solvents, to replace the chlorophyll center magnesium ion with copper ions, while saponification with alkali, after removing the methyl and phytol groups The carboxyl group formed becomes a disodium salt. Thus, chlorophyll copper sodium salt is a semi-synthetic pigment. Other chlorophyll pigments with similar structure and production principle include sodium salt of chlorophyll iron, sodium salt of chlorophyll zinc, etc.

Main Uses

Food Addition

Studies of plant foods with bioactive substances have shown a strong correlation between increasing fruit and vegetable consumption and declines in cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other diseases. Chlorophyll is one of the substances with natural bioactivity, and metalloporphyrin, a chlorophyll derivative, is one of the most unique of all natural pigments and has a wide range of uses.

For textiles

The negative effects of synthetic dyes used in textile dyeing on human health and the ecological environment have become a growing concern in recent years, and the use of non-polluting green natural dyes for textile dyeing has become a research direction for many scholars. There are few natural dyes that can dye green, and chlorophyll copper sodium salt is a food-grade green color pigment, a natural chlorophyll derivative that can be refined from extracted chlorophyll after saponification and coppering reactions, and is a metallic porphyrin with high stability, a dark green powder with a slight metallic luster.

For cosmetics

It can be added to cosmetics as a coloring agent. Chlorophyllin copper sodium salt is a dark green powder, odorless or slightly odorous. The aqueous solution is transparent bright green, deepens with increasing concentration, light and heat resistant, good stability. 1% solution pH is 9.5~10.2, when pH is below 6.5, it can produce precipitation when it meets calcium. Slightly soluble in ethanol. Easily precipitated in acidic beverages. Stronger than chlorophyll in light resistance, decomposes when heated above 110℃. In view of its stability and low toxicity, chlorophyll copper sodium salt is widely used in the cosmetic industry.

Medical Applications

Research in the medical field has a bright future because it has no toxic side effects. Wound treatment with a paste made of copper chlorophyll salts can accelerate wound healing. It is used as an air freshener in daily life and in clinical practice, and is particularly well studied for its anti-cancer and anti-tumor properties. Chlorophyllin copper sodium salt has the effect of scavenging free radicals, and research is considering to study adding it to cigarette filters to achieve scavenging of various free radicals in cigarette smoke, thus reducing the harm to human body.

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