Understanding Common Lab Solvents

Solvents are a class of chemicals defined by their function. Solvents are used to dissolve, suspend or extract other materials without chemically changing the components.

There are more than 1000 solvent varieties used in research, spectroscopy, analytical chemistry and manufacturing industries. They come in Research, Technical, USP, HPLC, LCMS, ACS Reagent, ASTM Types 1-IV, NIST Traceable, and Spectral grades, as well as molecular biology grades and pre-made mixtures as DNAse-free solutions.

Common Laboratory Solvents

Water	Halogenated Solvents	Methanol	Ethanol	Propanols	Butanols	Benzene
Acetone	Acetonitrile	Hexanes	Isopropyl Alcohol	Dimethylformamide	Phenol	Poloxamer
BrijA	Carbon Tetrachloride	Chloroform	Cyclohexane	Cyclopentane	DCM Dichloromethane	Polyethylene Glycols
Polyvinyl Alcohols	Pyridines	Tergitols	t-Butanol	Ethers	Diethyl ether	Tetraethylene Glycols
Tetrahydrofurans	Toluene

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Common NMR Deuterated Solvents

Acetic Acid-D	Acetone-D6	Acetonitrile-D3	Benzene-D6	Chloroform-D	Deuterium Oxide
Dichloromethane-d2	Dimethyl Sulfoxide-d6	Ethanol-D	Methanol-D	Methyl Sulfoxide-D6	N N-Dimethylformamide-D7
Nitrobenzene-D	Octane-D18	Pyridine-D5	Tert-Butanol-d10	Tetrahydrofuran-D	Toluene-D8
Trifluoroacetic Acid-D