Function of octanol/isoamylalcohol?

[Bernie Cohen]

In article <3.0.6.32.20000801221251.007b32f0 at cnmailsvr.nmsu.edu>,
hroychow at nmsu.edu ("Dr. Hiranya S. Roychowdhury") wrote:

> The octanol or isoamyl alcohol prevents foaming of the organic phase. 
> 
> At 09:44 AM 8/1/00 +0200, Jens Tiedemann wrote:

I agree with this comment, i.e. these components are unnecessary when a
centrifuge is used to separate the phases or when they separate
spontaneously, as they generally do in my DNA extractions. Foaming may
have been a problem once; it rarely is now.

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Bernie Cohen
Division of Molecular Genetics
University of Glasgow
e-mail: b.l.cohen at bio.gla.ac.uk