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Potassium carbonate, anhydrous

Catalog No. A16625 Name Alfa Aesar
CAS Number 584-08-7 Website
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Purity 99% Email
Storage Chembase ID: 103661

SYNONYMS

Title
碳酸钾,无水
IUPAC name
dipotassium carbonate
IUPAC Traditional name
dipotassium carbonate

DATABASE IDS

Beilstein Number 4267587
MDL Number MFCD00011382
CAS Number 584-08-7
EC Number 209-529-3
Merck Index 147619

PROPERTIES

Purity 99%
Density 2.29
Melting Point 891°C
GHS Pictograms GHS07
GHS Hazard statements H302-H319
European Hazard Symbols X
GHS Precautionary statements P280-P264-P305+P351+P338-P301+P312-P337+P313-P501A
Risk Statements 22-36
RTECS TS7750000
Safety Statements 22-36-60
Storage Warning Hygroscopic
TSCA Listed

DETAILS

REFERENCES

  • In non-aqueous solvents, acts as an economical, moderately-strong base which is widely used in place of other more expensive and hazardous bases in a variety of alkylation and condensation reactions.
  • For N-alkylation with alkyl halides, see Dibenzylamine, A11554. For alkylation reactions with dialkyl carbonates, see Dimethyl carbonate, A13104.
  • Promotes the Wittig olefination reaction in triglyme: Synth. Commun., 22, 513 (1992), or toluene: Synth. Commun., 22, 1691 (1992).
  • See also Cesium carbonate, 12887.