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Sodium thiocyanate

ACS reagent, ≥98.0%

Synonym(s):

Sodium isothiocyanate, Sodium rhodanate, Sodium rhodanide, Sodium sulfocyanate

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Linear Formula:
NaSCN
CAS Number:
540-72-7
Molecular Weight:
81.07
EC Number:
208-754-4
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
3594965
UNSPSC Code:
12352302
NACRES:
NA.21
PubChem Substance ID:
329752781
MDL number:
MFCD00011123
Assay:
≥98.0%
Grade:
ACS reagent
Form:
powder, crystals or chunks
Solubility:
water: soluble 1,000 g/L at 20 °C

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Product Name

Sodium thiocyanate, ACS reagent, ≥98.0%

InChI

1S/CHNS.Na/c2-1-3;/h3H;/q;+1/p-1

InChI key

VGTPCRGMBIAPIM-UHFFFAOYSA-M

SMILES string

[Na]SC#N

grade

ACS reagent

assay

≥98.0%

form

powder, crystals or chunks

impurities

≤0.005% insolubles
≤0.2% Na2CO3

pH

4.8 (20.1 °C, 1070 g/L)

mp

287 °C (dec.) (lit.)

solubility

water: soluble 1,000 g/L at 20 °C

anion traces

S2-: ≤0.001%
chloride (Cl-): ≤0.01%
sulfate (SO42-): ≤0.01%

cation traces

Fe: ≤2 ppm
NH4+: ≤0.002%
heavy metals (as Pb): ≤5 ppm

Quality Level

200

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Application

Undergoes nucleophilic substitution reactions with phase-transfer catalysts.

pictograms

CorrosionExclamation mark
GHS05,GHS07

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Danger

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 4 Dermal - Acute Tox. 4 Inhalation - Acute Tox. 4 Oral - Aquatic Chronic 3 - Eye Dam. 1

supp_hazards

EUH032

Storage Class

13 - Non Combustible Solids

wgk

WGK 1

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

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Polym. Chem., 29, 243-243 (1991)
Sandmeyer trifluoromethylthiolation of arenediazonium salts with sodium thiocyanate and Ruppert-Prakash reagent.
Danoun G, et al.
Chemical Science, 5(4), 1312-1316 (2014)
M-L Alvarez Gonzalez et al.
Human reproduction (Oxford, England), 24(9), 2217-2224 (2009-06-11)
In vivo mouse models have been developed to study the physiology of normal and pathologic endometrium. Although angiogenesis is known to play an important role in endometrial physiology and pathology, the origin of neovasculature in xenografts remains controversial. The aim
Vincent Ball et al.
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 21(9), 4129-4137 (2005-04-20)
In this study, we investigate the buildup of PEI-(PSS-PAH)(n) polyelectrolyte multilayers at pH 7.4 in the presence of either NaCl or NaSCN as a supporting electrolyte. It appears that in the presence of increasing thiocyanate concentrations (from 0.1 to 0.5
Sandra Romero-Steiner et al.
Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology, 12(9), 1029-1035 (2005-09-09)
Determination of antibody avidity measurements can be difficult in human serum depending on the population evaluated. We evaluated three approaches for the determination of antibody avidity for immunoglobulin G (IgG). These approaches were (i) elution of bound antibody with increasing
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