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Copper(II) oxide

ACS reagent, ≥99.0%

Synonym(s):

Cupric oxide

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
CuO
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
79.55
EC Number:
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
12352303
PubChem Substance ID:
NACRES:
NA.21

grade

ACS reagent

Assay

≥99.0%

form

powder

reaction suitability

reagent type: catalyst
core: copper

impurities

Free alkali, passes test
≤0.002% N compounds
≤0.01% C compounds
≤0.02% S compounds
≤0.02% insol. dil. HCl

anion traces

chloride (Cl-): ≤0.005%
sulfate (SO42-): ≤0.02%

cation traces

Ca: ≤0.01%
Fe: ≤0.05%
K: ≤0.02%
Na: ≤0.05%

SMILES string

[Cu]=O

InChI

1S/Cu.O

InChI key

QPLDLSVMHZLSFG-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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General description

Copper (II) oxide is one of the two stable oxides of copper. Cupric oxide is a precursor to many copper-containing products and chemicals. It is used as a pigment, fungicide, and antirust protection agent for marine paints. CuO possesses notable and admirable characteristics like abundance and affordability, ease of manufacturing, scalability, non-toxicity, antioxidant properties, and semiconducting characteristics.

Application

Copper (II) oxide is used:,As a catalyst in the synthesis of 2-Aryl- and 2-alkenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazoles from treating 1,3,4-oxadiazoles with aryl or alkenyl halides.

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Hazard Statements

Precautionary Statements

Hazard Classifications

Aquatic Acute 1 - Aquatic Chronic 1

Storage Class Code

13 - Non Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable


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Concise Encyclopedia Chemistry, 523-523 (1994)
Copper (II) oxide nanowires for p-type conductometric NH3 sensing.
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DSC kinetics of the thermal decomposition of copper (II) oxalate by isoconversional and maximum rate (peak) methods.
Muraleedharan K and Kripa S.
Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 115(2), 1969-1978 (2014)
A refinement of the crystal structure of copper (II) oxide with a discussion of some exceptional esd's.
?sbrink S and Norrby LJ.
Acta Crystallographica Section B, Structural Science, 26(1), 8-15 (1970)
Sumanta Kumar Meher et al.
Nanoscale, 5(5), 2089-2099 (2013-02-06)
In the quest to enhance the selectivity and sensitivity of novel structured metal oxides for electrochemical non-enzymatic sensing of glucose, we report here a green synthesis of unique sandwich-structured CuO on a large scale under microwave mediated homogeneous precipitation conditions.

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