Empirical Formula (Hill Notation): C6H8O6, Molecular Weight: 176.12, reagent grade, crystalline, Synonym: L-Threoascorbic acid, Antiscorbutic factor, Vitamin C. L-Ascorbic acid has been used: as a chondrogenic medium component for culturing bone-derived mesenchymal stem cells, as a reference standard in high-performance liquid chromatography system (HPLC), and to test its effect on human gastric cancer GES-1 and AGS cells.