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Bismuth(III) iodide

99%, powder

Synonym(s):

Bismuth triiodide, Triiodobismuthane

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
BiI3
CAS Number:
7787-64-6
Molecular Weight:
589.69
NACRES:
NA.22
PubChem Substance ID:
24860889
UNSPSC Code:
12161600
EC Number:
232-127-4
MDL number:
MFCD00010894

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Product Name

Bismuth(III) iodide, 99%

InChI key

KOECRLKKXSXCPB-UHFFFAOYSA-K

InChI

1S/Bi.3HI/h;3*1H/q+3;;;/p-3

SMILES string

I[Bi](I)I

assay

99%

form

powder

reaction suitability

core: bismuth, reagent type: catalyst

mp

408 °C (lit.)

density

5.78 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

Quality Level

100

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Application

Bismuth(III) iodide or Bismuth triiodide are nontoxic and hence they are used as environmentally friendly catalysts. It can be used as a catalyst in the:
  • Chemoselective deprotection of acetals and ketals in water.
  • Synthesis of polysubstituted guanidines by guanylation reaction of thioureas with amines.
  • Sulfenylation of carbonyl compounds.

pictograms

Corrosion
GHS05

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Danger

hcodes

H314

Hazard Classifications

Eye Dam. 1 - Skin Corr. 1B

Storage Class

8A - Combustible corrosive hazardous materials

wgk

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

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WXBF7522V
WXBF6410V
WXBF1242V
WXBD6954V
WXBD6031V

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Bismuth (III) Halides and Sulfate as Highly Efficient Catalyst for the Sulfenylation of Carbonyl and Related Compounds1
Komatsu N, et al.
Synlett, 1995(09), 984-986 (1995)
Environmentally friendly organic synthesis using bismuth compounds: bismuth (III) iodide catalyzed deprotection of acetals in water
Bailey AD, et al.
Tetrahedron Letters, 49(4), 691-694 (2008)
The first bismuth (III)-catalyzed guanylation of thioureas
Cunha S and Rodrigues Jr MT
Tetrahedron Letters, 47(39), 6955-6956 (2006)
Wenhua Bi et al.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), (44)(44), 5743-5745 (2008-11-15)
The dehydration of a iodobismuthate hybrid built up from Bi(4)I(16) clusters and protonated L-cystine molecules involves an unprecedented reversible dynamic structural change in the solid state leading to 1D BiI(4) chains and 1D helical molecular chains, highlighting the templating effect
Jie Sun et al.
Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy, 79(5), 904-908 (2011-05-10)
A novel series of Ge-Te-BiI(3) chalcogenide glasses were prepared by traditional melt-quenching method and the glass-forming region was determined. Properties measurements including density, Vis-NIR and infrared (IR) transmission spectra with FTIR, XRD, DSC were adopted to analyze the composition, structure
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