Cesium Carbonate is a powerful inorganic base widely used in organic synthesis. It is a potential chemoselective catalyst for the reduction of aldehydes and ketones to alcohols.
Cesium carbonate | |
Synonyms: | Caesium carbonate,Dicesium carbonate,Cesiumcarbonate |
Chemical formula | Cs2CO3 |
Molar mass | 325.82 g/mol |
Appearance | white powder |
Density | 4.072 g/cm3 |
Melting point | 610 °C (1,130 °F; 883 K) (decomposes) |
Solubility in water | 2605 g/L (15 °C) |
Solubility in ethanol | 110 g/L |
Solubility in dimethylformamide | 119.6 g/L |
Solubility in dimethyl sulfoxide | 361.7 g/L |
Solubility in sulfolane | 394.2 g/L |
High Purity Cesium Carbonate
Item No. | Chemical Composition | ||||||||||
CsCO3 | Foreign Mat.≤wt% | ||||||||||
(wt%) | LI | Na | K | Rb | Ca | Mg | Fe | Al | SiO2 | Pb | |
UMCC999 | ≥99.9% | 0.0005 | 0.001 | 0.005 | 0.02 | 0.003 | 0.0005 | 0.0003 | 0.001 | 0.008 | 0.0005 |
Packing: 1000g/plastic bottle, 20 bottle/carton. Note: This product can be made to agreed upon customer.
What is Cesium Carbonate used for?
Cesium carbonate is an attractive base that finds more and more applications in coupling chemistry. Cesium carbonate is also employed as catalyst for Aerobic oxidation of primary alcohols. As a raw material for producing various cesium compounds,Cesium nitrate is widely use in catalyst,special glass and ceramics etc.