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Potassium formate

Name: Potassium formate
Brand: ALDRICH

ReagentPlus^®, 99%

Synonym(s):

Formic acid potassium salt

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About This Item

Linear Formula:

HCOOK

CAS Number:

590-29-4

Molecular Weight:

84.12

PubChem Substance ID:

24857716

UNSPSC Code:

12352302

NACRES:

NA.22

EC Number:

209-677-9

MDL number:

MFCD00013100

Beilstein/REAXYS Number:

3623272

Assay:

99%

Grade:

reagent grade

Form:

solid

Solubility:

water: soluble

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Properties

grade

reagent grade

Quality Segment

200

product line

ReagentPlus^®

assay

99%

form

solid

mp

165-168 °C (lit.)

solubility

water: soluble

SMILES string

[K+].[O-]C=O

InChI

1S/CH2O2.K/c2-1-3;/h1H,(H,2,3);/q;+1/p-1

InChI key

WFIZEGIEIOHZCP-UHFFFAOYSA-M

Description

Application

Potassium formate has been used as a biochemical component for the synthesis of liquid phantom to study the Raman reconstruction by Wiener estimation.
It can be used:

For the hydroxycarbonylation of aryl halides in the presence of 1–5 mol % of CO.
As an additive for thermal activation of sodium peroxydisulfate.
As a reducing agent to suppress the undesired boronic acid homocoupling reaction in Suzuki cross-coupling reaction.

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Storage Class

13 - Non Combustible Solids

wgk

WGK 1

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

Eyeshields, Gloves, type N95 (US)

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