Cesium hydroxide monohydrate can be used as a strong electrolyte for the battery and it also can be used as polymerization catalyst. It is also used as a raw materials for manufacturing various cesium salts and Catalyst.
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Applications
Cesium hydroxide monohydrate can be used as a strong electrolyte for the battery and it also can be used as polymerization catalyst. It is also used as a raw materials for manufacturing various cesium salts and Catalyst.
Solubility
Soluble in water with exothermic reaction.
Notes
Air sensitive & hygroscopic. Incompatible with oxidizing agents, acids, air, water/moisture.
RUO – Research Use Only
General References:
- Ralph N. Salvatore; Advait S. Nagle; Shaun E. Schmidt; and Kyung Woon Jung. Cesium Hydroxide Promoted Chemoselective N-Alkylation for the Generally Efficient Synthesis of Secondary Amines. Org. Lett. 1999, 1 (12), 1893-1896.
- Dimitrios Tzalis; Christopher Koradin; Paul Knochel. Cesium hydroxide catalyzed addition of alcohols and amine derivatives to alkynes and styrene. Tetrahedron Letters. 1999, 40 (34), 6193-6195.
- Superior base for catalytic alkynylation of aldehydes and ketones with 1-alkynes: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 38, 1463 (1999). Promotes the chemoselective N-monoalkylation of primary amines with alkyl bromides in DMF: Org. Lett., 1, 1893 (1999). Under similar conditions, with the addition of Bu4NI, alcohols are converted to ethers: Tetrahedron Lett., 40, 1843 (1999).