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Calcium hypochlorite, tech.

Catalog No. 42548 Name Alfa Aesar
CAS Number 7778-54-3 Website
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SYNONYMS

Title
次氯酸钙, tech.
IUPAC name
calcium dihypochlorite
IUPAC Traditional name
calcium dihypochlorite
Synonyms
Bleaching powder

DATABASE IDS

CAS Number 7778-54-3
EC Number 231-908-7
MDL Number MFCD00010900
Merck Index 141674

PROPERTIES

Packing Group II
GHS Pictograms GHS03
GHS Pictograms GHS05
GHS Pictograms GHS07
GHS Pictograms GHS09
GHS Hazard statements H272-H314-H400-H302
European Hazard Symbols X
European Hazard Symbols Corrosive Corrosive (C)
European Hazard Symbols Oxidising Oxidising (O)
European Hazard Symbols Nature polluting Nature polluting (N)
GHS Precautionary statements P221-P210-P303+P361+P353-P305+P351+P338-P405-P501A
Risk Statements 8-22-31-34-50
RTECS NH3485000
Safety Statements 26-36/37/39-45-61
TSCA Listed
Hazard Class 5.1
UN Number UN1748
Apperance Granular
Density 2.350
Melting Point 100°C

DETAILS

REFERENCES

  • Useful low-cost oxidant:
  • For a review of synthetic oxidations with hypochlorites, see: Org. Prep. Proced. Int., 24, 623 (1992).
  • Secondary alcohols to ketones in high yield; primary alcohols tend to give esters of the starting alcohol: Tetrahedron Lett., 35 (1982). In MeOH in the presence of AcOH, primary alcohols can be converted directly to methyl esters: Tetrahedron Lett., 34, 2741 (1993). Aldehydes to acids: Tetrahedron Lett., 23, 3131 (1982). In the presence of AcOH, benzenoid compounds undergo ring chlorination: Synth. Commun., 19, 799 (1989).