Abstract
Inositol hexakisphosphates are extracted from soil in strong alkali and isolated from other organic phosphates by hypobromite oxidation. The procedure yields the four stereoisomeric forms of inositol hexakisphosphate in a form suitable for spectroscopic or chromatographic identification.
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Turner, B.L. (2020). Isolation of Inositol Hexakisphosphate from Soils by Alkaline Extraction and Hypobromite Oxidation. In: Miller, G. (eds) Inositol Phosphates. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2091. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0167-9_3
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