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Potassium (meta)periodate

puriss. p.a., ACS reagent, ≥99.8% (dried material, RT)

Synonym(s):

Periodic acid potassium salt, Potassium periodate

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Linear Formula:
KIO4
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
230.00
NACRES:
NB.24
PubChem Substance ID:
UNSPSC Code:
12352300
EC Number:
232-196-0
MDL number:
Assay:
≥99.8% (dried material, RT)
Form:
crystals
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InChI

1S/HIO4.K/c2-1(3,4)5;/h(H,2,3,4,5);/q;+1/p-1

InChI key

FJVZDOGVDJCCCR-UHFFFAOYSA-M

SMILES string

[K+].[O-]I(=O)(=O)=O

grade

ACS reagent, puriss. p.a.

assay

≥99.8% (dried material, RT)

form

crystals

loss

≤0.1% loss on drying, 110 °C

pH

~5.1 (25 °C, 5 g/L)

anion traces

bromide, bromate, chloride, chlorate (as Cl-): ≤100 mg/kg, sulfate (SO42-): ≤50 mg/kg

cation traces

Ca: ≤10 mg/kg, Cd: ≤5 mg/kg, Co: ≤5 mg/kg, Cr: ≤5 mg/kg, Cu: ≤5 mg/kg, Fe: ≤50 mg/kg, Mg: ≤5 mg/kg, Mn: ≤1 mg/kg, Na: ≤2000 mg/kg, Ni: ≤5 mg/kg, Pb: ≤5 mg/kg, Zn: ≤5 mg/kg

General description

Potassium (meta)periodate exhibits strong oxidizing properties in acidic medium.

Application

Potassium (meta)periodate may be employed as an oxidizing reagent for the oxidation of starch. It may be employed as oxidizer in the iodine bromide method for the volumetric determination of following compounds:
  • potassium iodide
  • arsenious oxide
  • antimonous oxide
  • stannous chloride
  • mercurous chloride
  • sodium sulphite
  • sodium thiosulphate
  • sodium tetrathionate
  • ferrous sulphate
  • potassium thiocyanate
  • hydrazine sulphate
  • phenylhydrazine hydrochloride
  • hydroquinone

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Danger

Hazard Classifications

Aquatic Acute 1 - Eye Dam. 1 - Ox. Sol. 1 - Skin Corr. 1C - STOT RE 1

target_organs

Thyroid

Storage Class

5.1A - Strongly oxidizing hazardous materials

wgk

WGK 3

Regulatory Information

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Potassium meta-periodate as volumetric reagent: Iodine bromide method.
Singh B and Singh A.
Analytica Chimica Acta, 9, 22-25 (1953)
Physicochemical studies on starches. Part II. The oxidation of starches by potassium metaperiodate.
Anderson DMW, et al.
Journal of the Chemical Society, 225-231 (1955)
Jianxiu Du et al.
Luminescence : the journal of biological and chemical luminescence, 25(1), 76-80 (2009-07-25)
A simple and sensitive chemiluminescence (CL) method combined with flow injection technique was developed for the determination of naproxen. It was based upon the weak CL signal arising from the reaction of KIO(4) with H(2)O(2) being significantly increased by naproxen
Yan-Ming Liu et al.
Electrophoresis, 28(12), 1937-1941 (2007-05-08)
A rapid and sensitive method to detect three catecholamines, isoprenaline, epinephrine, and dopamine, by CE coupled with direct luminol-potassium periodate chemiluminescence (CL) detection is described. The conditions for CE separation and CL reaction were systematically optimized. Under the optimum conditions
K Fukuyama et al.
The Journal of biological chemistry, 270(37), 21884-21892 (1995-09-15)
The structures of the cyanide and triiodide complexes of Arthromyces ramosus peroxidase (ARP) at different pH values were investigated by x-ray crystallography in order to examine the behavior of the invariant residues of arginine (Arg-52) and distal histidine (His-56) during

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