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459097

Copper(II) chloride dihydrate

99.999%

Synonym(s):

Cupric chloride dihydrate

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Linear Formula:
CuCl2 · 2H2O
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
170.48
NACRES:
NA.23
PubChem Substance ID:
UNSPSC Code:
12352302
EC Number:
231-210-2
MDL number:
assay:
99.999%
form:
solid

Product Name

Copper(II) chloride dihydrate, 99.999%

InChI key

MPTQRFCYZCXJFQ-UHFFFAOYSA-L

InChI

1S/2ClH.Cu.2H2O/h2*1H;;2*1H2/q;;+2;;/p-2

SMILES string

Cl[Cu]Cl.[H]O[H].[H]O[H]

vapor density

>1 (vs air)

assay

99.999%

form

solid

reaction suitability

core: copper

impurities

≤15.0 ppm Trace Metal Analysis

mp

100 °C (dec.) (lit.)

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Application

Copper chloride dehydrate refluxed in acetonitrile can chemoselectively hydrolyze semicarbazones to carbonyl compounds. Copper chloride dehydrate may be used as a catalyst for efficiently cleaving t-butyldimethylsilyl (TBDMS).

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Danger

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 4 Dermal - Acute Tox. 4 Oral - Aquatic Acute 1 - Aquatic Chronic 2 - Eye Dam. 1 - Skin Irrit. 2

Storage Class

8A - Combustible corrosive hazardous materials

wgk

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Gloves


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Deprotection of t-butyldimethylsiloxy (TBDMS) protecting group with catalytic copper (II) chloride dihydrate.
Ping Z, et al.
Chinese Chemical Letters = Zhongguo Hua Xue Kuai Bao, 11(19), 753-756 (2000)
Regeneration of carbonyl compounds from semicarbazones by copper (II) chloride dihydrate.
Ram RN and Varsha K.
Tetrahedron Letters, 32(41), 5829-5832 (1991)
Sebastian Müller et al.
PloS one, 13(11), e0206764-e0206764 (2018-11-07)
The clinically approved drug metformin has been shown to selectively kill persister cancer cells through mechanisms that are not fully understood. To provide further mechanistic insights, we developed a drug surrogate that phenocopies metformin and can be labeled in situ
Bin Wu et al.
Carbohydrate research, 351, 68-73 (2012-03-01)
Two new glucoside esters 1 and 2 were produced as stress metabolites in the fresh leaves of Portulaca oleracea, in response to abiotic stress elicitation by CuCl(2). A new sugar ester (3) and two known compounds (4 and 5) were
Iron(II)-catalyzed trifluoromethylation of potassium vinyltrifluoroborates.
Andrew T Parsons et al.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 51(12), 2947-2950 (2012-02-14)

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