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Potassium hydroxide

semiconductor grade, pellets, 99.99% trace metals basis (Purity excludes sodium content.)

Synonym(s):

Caustic potash

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Linear Formula:
KOH
CAS Number:
1310-58-3
Molecular Weight:
56.11
PubChem Substance ID:
329753558
eCl@ss:
38100303
UNSPSC Code:
12352106
NACRES:
NA.21
EC Number:
215-181-3
MDL number:
MFCD00003553
Assay:
99.99% trace metals basis (Purity excludes sodium content.)
Grade:
semiconductor grade
Form:
pellets
Solubility:
water: soluble
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grade

semiconductor grade

Quality Level

200

vapor pressure

1 mmHg ( 719 °C)

assay

99.99% trace metals basis (Purity excludes sodium content.)

form

pellets

composition

KOH, >85.0%

impurities

15% water

pH

~13.5 (25 °C, 5.6 g/L)

mp

361 °C (lit.)

solubility

water: soluble

cation traces

Na: ≤500.0 ppm

SMILES string

[OH-].[K+]

InChI

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

InChI key

KWYUFKZDYYNOTN-UHFFFAOYSA-M

General description

Potassium hydroxide (KOH), also known as caustic potash. It is used as a significant precursor to many potassium containing products.

Application

Potassium hydroxide can be used:
  • As a base in the synthesis of imines, starting from amines and alcohols.
  • As a base in β-alkylation of secondary alcohols with primary alcohols without any transition metal catalyst.
  • In combination with aluminium for pinacolization of aromatic aldehydes and reduction of hindered ketones.
  • As a precipitating agent in the synthesis of MnZn ferrites nanoparticles (Mn0.8Zn0.2Fe2O4 ferrite nanoparticles) by modified hydrothermal method.

In combination with tellurium powder, mediates the quantitative pinacolization of aromatic carbonyl compounds.

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GHS05,GHS07

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Danger

Hazard Classifications

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

Storage Class

8A - Combustible corrosive hazardous materials

wgk

WGK 1

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

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Qilun Wang et al.
Nature communications, 11(1), 4246-4246 (2020-08-28)
Water electrolysis offers a promising energy conversion and storage technology for mitigating the global energy and environmental crisis, but there still lack highly efficient and pH-universal electrocatalysts to boost the sluggish kinetics for both cathodic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and
Ian T McCrum et al.
The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces, 122(29), 16756-16764 (2018-09-28)
The effect of the alkali-metal cation (Li+, Na+, K+, and Cs+) on the non-Nernstian pH shift of the Pt(554) and Pt(533) step-associated voltammetric peak is elucidated over a wide pH window (1-13), through computation and experiment. In conjunction with our
Khan, R.H. et al.
Synthetic Communications, 27, 2193-2193 (1997)
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SKUGTIN
306568-100G04061826673027
306568-500G04061826673034