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Preparation of stock solutions

Most BIOLOG products are sold in micromol quantities in order to assist customers with the preparation of stock solutions. In contrast to often troublesome calculations regarding molecular weight, salt form, water content and purity percentages, simply add certain volumes of solvent ( mostly water or buffer ) and end up already with stock solutions of defined concentrations.

The following table shows how to dissolve the content of a vial with water or buffer in order to obtain defined stock solutions.

Example: If you add 500 μl of buffer to the content of a 5 µmol vial, you end up with a 10 mM solution.

 



Concentration of resulting stock solution

Content of vial

 

1 µmol

 

5 µmol

 

10 µmol

 

25 µmol

 

50 µmol

 

100 µmol

Water or buffer volumes to be added to achieve stock concentrations on the left

100 mM (1 x 10-1 M)

10 µl

50 µl

100 µl

250 µl

500 µl

1 ml

50 mM (5 x 10-2 M)

20 µl

100 µl

200 µl

500 µl

1 ml

2 ml

20 mM (2 x 10-2 M)

50 µl

250 µl

500 µl

1.25 ml

2.5 ml

5 ml

10 mM (1 x 10-2 M)

100 µl

500 µl

1 ml

2.5 ml

5 ml

10 ml

5 mM (5 x 10-3 M)

200 µl

1 ml

2 ml

5 ml

10 ml

20 ml

1 mM (1 x 10-3 M)

1 ml

5 ml

10 ml

25 ml

50 ml

100 ml

500 µM (5 x 10-4 M)

2 ml

10 ml

20 ml

50 ml

100 ml

200 ml

 

If a typical dilution series (1 mM, 100 µM, 10 µM, 1 µM ...) is prepared, respective final end volumes will be 90% of the starting stock solution. For example: The content of a 10 µmol vial that has been dissolved in 10 ml of water to result in a 1 mM stock solution, yields 9 ml of each concentration level after dilution.

A PDF version of the table is available for download.