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Potassium hydroxide

Name: Potassium hydroxide
Brand: SIAL
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free-flowing, Redi-Dri^™, ACS reagent, ≥85%, pellets

Synonym(s):

Caustic potash

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About This Item

Linear Formula:

KOH

CAS Number:

1310-58-3

Molecular Weight:

56.11

UNSPSC Code:

12352320

NACRES:

NA.21

MDL number:

MFCD00003553

Assay:

≥85%

Form:

pellets

Grade:

ACS reagent

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Properties

grade

ACS reagent

agency

suitable for EPA 1621, suitable for EPA 1633, suitable for SM 5210

vapor pressure

1 mmHg ( 719 °C)

product line

Redi-Dri^™

assay

≥85%

form

pellets

quality

free-flowing

impurities

≤0.001% N compounds, ≤2.0% K₂CO₃, 10-15% water

mp

361 °C (lit.)

anion traces

chloride (Cl^-): ≤0.01%, phosphate (PO₄^3-): ≤5 ppm, sulfate (SO₄^2-): ≤0.003%

cation traces

Ca: ≤0.005%, Fe: ≤0.001%, Mg: ≤0.002%, Na: ≤0.05%, Ni: ≤0.001%, heavy metals: ≤0.001% (by ICP-OES)

SMILES string

[OH-].[K+]

application(s)

PFAS testing

InChI

1S/K.H2O/h;1H2/q+1;/p-1

InChI key

KWYUFKZDYYNOTN-UHFFFAOYSA-M

Description

General description

Potassium hydroxide is an inorganic salt mainly used as a precursor to synthesize other potassium compounds such as potassium acetate, potassium bicarbonate and potassium carbonate. On a commercial scale, it is synthesized by the electrolysis of potassium chloride.

Application

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Potassium hydroxide may be used in the following processes:

Conversion of nitriles to amide in tert-butanol.
Cross-coupling of aryl halides with different sulfur-, oxygen- and nitrogen-based nucleophiles in dimethyl sulfoxide.
As an activator for the preparation of activated carbons from corn cobs.
As a base for the N-alkylation of nitrogen heterocycles in polyethylene glycol-ether solvents.
Synthesis of (S)-1-(4-benzyl-2-thioxothiazolidin-3-yl)propan-1-one from (S)-phenylalaninol.
To catalyze the polymerization of propylene oxide.

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This Item	30603	06103	306568
Sigma-Aldrich 911062 Potassium hydroxide	Sigma-Aldrich 30603 Potassium hydroxide	Sigma-Aldrich 06103 Potassium hydroxide	Sigma-Aldrich 306568 Potassium hydroxide
description free-flowing, Redi-Dri^™, ACS reagent, ≥85%, pellets	description pellets, reag. Ph. Eur., ≥85%	description technical, ≥85%, powder	description semiconductor grade, pellets, 99.99% trace metals basis (Purity excludes sodium content.)
grade ACS reagent	grade -	grade -	grade semiconductor grade
assay ≥85%	assay ≥85%	assay ≥85%	assay 99.99% trace metals basis (Purity excludes sodium content.)
agency suitable for EPA 1621, suitable for SM 5210, suitable for EPA 1633	agency USP/NF, reag. Ph. Eur.	agency -	agency -
form pellets	form pellets	form powder	form pellets
impurities ≤0.001% N compounds, 10-15% water, ≤2.0% K₂CO₃	impurities ≤2.0% K₂CO₃	impurities ≤0.002% heavy metals (as Pb), ≤1.0% K₂CO₃	impurities 15% water
cation traces Ca: ≤0.005%, Mg: ≤0.002%, Ni: ≤0.001%, Fe: ≤0.001%, heavy metals: ≤0.001% (by ICP-OES), Na: ≤0.05%	cation traces Al: ≤0.001%, Ca: ≤0.001%, Fe: ≤0.001%, Na: ≤1.0%, Ni: ≤0.0005%	cation traces Fe: ≤20 mg/kg	cation traces Na: ≤500.0 ppm

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pictograms

GHS05,GHS07

signalword

Danger

hcodes

H290,H302,H314

pcodes

P234 - P260 - P280 - P301 + P312 - P303 + P361 + P353 - P305 + P351 + P338

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 4 Oral - Eye Dam. 1 - Met. Corr. 1 - Skin Corr. 1A

Storage Class

8B - Non-combustible corrosive hazardous materials

wgk

WGK 1

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

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