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Potassium tert-butoxide, puriss, 98%

Code: P 2145

(For eg. B 1615-0108)

Potassium tert-butoxide is the chemical compound with the formula K+(CH3)3CO−. This colourless solid is a strong base (pKa of conjugate acid around 17) which is useful in organic synthesis. It exists as a tetrameric cubane-type cluster

P 2145 (OTTO) Potassium tert-butoxide, 98% - used for greener amidation of esters.Potassium tert-butoxide is used as a strong non-nucleophilic base in organic chemistry. It plays an active role in dehydrohalogenation reactions.