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Potassium cyanide

Catalog No. L13273 Name Alfa Aesar
CAS Number 151-50-8 Website
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Purity 97+% Email
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SYNONYMS

Title
氰化钾
IUPAC name
potassium iminomethanide
IUPAC Traditional name
potassium cyanide

DATABASE IDS

EC Number 205-792-3
CAS Number 151-50-8
Beilstein Number 4652394
MDL Number MFCD00011397
Merck Index 147626

PROPERTIES

Purity 97+%
Boiling Point 1625°C
Density 1.52
Melting Point 634°C
GHS Pictograms GHS06
GHS Pictograms GHS09
GHS Hazard statements H300-H310-H330-H400-H410
European Hazard Symbols Highly toxic Highly toxic (T+)
European Hazard Symbols Nature polluting Nature polluting (N)
GHS Precautionary statements P260-P301+P310-P304+P340-P320-P330-P361-P405-P501A
Risk Statements 26/27/28-32-50/53
RTECS TS8750000
Safety Statements 7-28-29-45-60-61
Storage Warning Hygroscopic
TSCA Listed
Hazard Class 6.1
UN Number UN1680
Packing Group I

DETAILS

REFERENCES

  • For crown-ether promoted cyanation reactions and formation of a 1:1 crown-ether complex, see 18-Crown-6, A11249. For cyanation of alkyl halides using phase-transfer catalysis without solvent, see: Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr., 124 (1986). See also Sodium cyanide, L13278.