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Potassium hydroxide

free-flowing, Redi-Dri™, ACS reagent, ≥85%, pellets

Synonym(s):

Caustic potash

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Linear Formula:
KOH
CAS Number:
1310-58-3
Molecular Weight:
56.11
MDL number:
MFCD00003553
UNSPSC Code:
12352320
NACRES:
NA.21

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 (PO43-): ≤5 ppm
sulfate (SO42-): ≤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+]

InChI

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

InChI key

KWYUFKZDYYNOTN-UHFFFAOYSA-M

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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

Redi-Dri™ is an innovative packaging product line that helps eliminate clumping material by adding extra packaging process steps without any chemical additives, anti-clumping agents, or hydrophobic compounds. Redi-Dri™ offers a more convenient and safer way to handle the products.
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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pictograms

CorrosionExclamation mark
GHS05,GHS07

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Danger

Hazard Classifications

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

Storage Class

8B - Non-combustible corrosive hazardous materials

wgk_germany

WGK 1

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

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Rokas Drevinskas et al.
Optics express, 23(2), 1428-1437 (2015-04-04)
Surface texturing is demonstrated by the combination of wet etching and ultrafast laser nanostructuring of silica glass. Using potassium hydroxide (KOH) at room temperature as an etchant of laser modified glass, we show the polarization dependent linear increase in retardance
Yoshihiro Takemura et al.
Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB, 86, 121-129 (2014-12-02)
Endodormancy is an important feature of perennial deciduous fruit trees that survive in the extreme climates brought about by seasonal variation. To acquire a comprehensive knowledge of the biochemical processes occurring just before endodormancy breaking, the buds collected in the
Chen-Ting Lee et al.
PloS one, 10(3), e0120327-e0120327 (2015-03-21)
Traditional treatments, including a variety of thermal therapies have been known since ancient times to provide relief from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) symptoms. However, a general absence of information on how heating affects molecular or immunological targets relevant to RA has
Hassan M Albishri et al.
Journal of chromatographic science, 53(7), 1123-1130 (2014-12-30)
Two cyclodextrin micellar liquid chromatographic methods were developed and applied to the simultaneous determination of bisoprolol/hydrochlorothiazide and atenolol/chlorthalidone combinations in urine matrices without sample pretreatment. These combined β-blockers and diuretics chemotherapies are commonly used in the treatment of hypertension and
Carlos H Niño et al.
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 110(7), 890-897 (2015-11-13)
The intracellular parasite Trypanosoma cruzi is the aetiological agent of Chagas disease, a public health concern with an increasing incidence rate. This increase is due, among other reasons, to the parasite's drug resistance mechanisms, which require nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+).
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