Dextran has found many applications in medicine including reducing blood viscosity, preventing blood clot formation, and serving as an iron-dextran nanoparticle (NP) to treat iron deficiency anemia using the carboxymethyl dextran-coated magnetite nanoparticle, Feraheme
Epichlorohydrin, which is colourless and poorly soluble in water and has a pungent, chloroform-like odour, is converted to 3-chloro-1,2-propanediol (α-chlorohydrin) in an aqueous milieu at a pH of 7 and 20°C
Epichlorohydrin is a highly reactive electrophilic compound and is used in the production of glycerol, plastics, epoxy glues and resins, epoxy diluents and elastomers