Saville reaction

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The Saville reaction is a chemical reaction in which mercury replaces a nitrosyl from a thiol group.

It is used as a method of replacing the nitrosyl from the modified cysteines and thus can serve in research of the redox modification of different proteins.A scheme for the colorimetric determination of microgram amounts of thiols; Saville B. Analyst 83, 670 (1958) PN50818.

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