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Ammonium iodide

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ACS reagent, ≥99%

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Linear Formula:
NH4I
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
144.94
EC Number:
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
12352300
eCl@ss:
38050607
PubChem Substance ID:

grade

ACS reagent

vapor pressure

1 mmHg ( 210.9 °C)

assay

≥99%

form

powder or crystals

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Catalysis
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impurities

≤0.005% insolubles

ign. residue

≤0.05%

pH

4.5-6.5 (25 °C, 50 g/L)

anion traces

Cl- and Br-: ≤0.005%
phosphate (PO43-): ≤0.001%
sulfate (SO42-): ≤0.05%

cation traces

Ba: ≤0.002%
Fe: ≤5 ppm
heavy metals (as Pb): ≤0.001%

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SMILES string

N.I

InChI

1S/HI.H3N/h1H;1H3

InChI key

UKFWSNCTAHXBQN-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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General description

We are committed to bringing you Greener Alternative Products, which adhere to one or more of The 12 Principles of Greener Chemistry. This product is used as a ntrogen source for syntheis of many heterocyclic compounds and is also used as a catalyst or redox catalyst in some reactions. Click here for more information.
The high yield and regioselective conversion of an unactivated aziridine to an oxazolidinone using carbon dioxide with ammonium iodide as the catalyst

Application

Catalyst for mild, efficient, and greener dethioacetalization.

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Hazard Classifications

STOT RE 1 Oral

target_organs

Thyroid

Storage Class

6.1C - Combustible acute toxic Cat.3 / toxic compounds or compounds which causing chronic effects

wgk_germany

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable


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Jinho Kim et al.
Organic letters, 14(15), 3924-3927 (2012-07-17)
Copper-mediated regioselective cyanation of indoles and 2-phenylpyridines was developed by using ammonium iodide and DMF as the combined source of a cyano unit under "Pd-free" conditions. Mechanistic studies indicate that the reaction of indoles proceeds through a two-step sequence: electrophilic
Simple and regioselective oxyiodination of aromatic compounds with ammonium iodide and Oxone.
Mohan KVVK, et al.
Tetrahedron Letters, 45(43), 8015-8018 (2004)
Low-Frequency Vibrations in Ammonium Iodide and Ammonium Bromide.
Durig JR and Antion DJ.
J. Chem. Phys. , 51(9), 3639-3647 (1969)
Xiaofang Gao et al.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), 51(1), 210-212 (2014-11-20)
A novel ammonium iodide-induced sulfonylation of alkenes with DMSO and water toward the synthesis of vinyl methyl sulfones is described. The process proceeded smoothly under metal-free conditions with high stereoselectivity and good functional group tolerance. The reaction mechanism was revealed
Jinho Kim et al.
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134(5), 2528-2531 (2012-01-28)
The cyanation of aromatic boronic acids, boronate esters, and borate salts was developed under copper-mediated oxidative conditions using ammonium iodide and DMF as the source of nitrogen and carbon atom of the cyano unit, respectively. The procedure was successfully extended

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