Description
Potassium cyanide is a colorless hygroscopic compound. Its crystals exhibit cubic crystal system. It can be prepared by reacting hydrogen cyanide with potassium hydroxide. It participates in benzoin condensation reaction.
Application
As a reducing agent in the colorimetric determination of amino acids.
Preparation of ferrocylacetonitrile, via reaction with methiodide of N,N-dimethylaminomethylferrocene.
Synthesis of O-acetylcyanohydrins.
Cyanation of aldimines via asymmetric Strecker-type reactions in the presence of chiral phase-transfer catalysts to form α-amino nitriles.
Metal-catalyzed addition of cyanide to 1,2-epoxides to form β-hydroxy nitriles.
About This Item
Formula : CKN
CAS Number: 151-50-8
Molecular Weight: 65.12
grade: ACS reagent
Assay: ≥96.0%
form:granular
solubility: water: soluble(lit.)
