215074

Potassium cyanate

96%

• Linear Formula: KOCN
• CAS Number: 590-28-3
• Molecular Weight: 81.12
• Beilstein/REAXYS Number: 3594798
• EC Number: 209-676-3
• MDL number: MFCD00011411
• UNSPSC Code: 12352302
• eCl@ss: 38060513
• PubChem Substance ID: 329752160
• NACRES: NA.55
• assay: 96%
• form: powder, crystals or chunks

Properties

• Quality Level: 200
• assay: 96%
• form: powder, crystals or chunks
• density: 2.056 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)
• SMILES string: [K+].[O-]C#N
• InChI: 1S/CHNO.K/c2-1-3;/h3H;/q;+1/p-1
• InChI key: GKKCIDNWFBPDBW-UHFFFAOYSA-M

Description

General description

Potassium cyanate can be prepared by reacting urea with alkali hydroxide or carbonates at high temperatures.

Application

Potassium cyanate may be used as one of the reaction components for the synthesis of the following:

• urea
• hydantion
• glycosylamine 1,2-(cyclic carbamates) {glycofurano(or pyrano)[1,2-d]oxazolidin-2-ones}
• arylcarbamates
• (S)-(-)-1-carbamoyl-2-methoxymethylpyrrolidine

Safety Information

• pictograms: GHS07
• signalword: Warning
• hcodes: H302,H319,H412
• pcodes: P264 - P270 - P273 - P280 - P301 + P312 - P305 + P351 + P338
• Hazard Classifications: Acute Tox. 4 Oral - Aquatic Chronic 3 - Eye Irrit. 2
• Storage Class: 11 - Combustible Solids
• wgk_germany: WGK 1
• flash_point_f: Not applicable
• flash_point_c: Not applicable