Chemical Properties
White to off-white powder
Uses
Sodium dicyanamide is used or the production of pharmaceuticals (e.g. chlorhexidine, biguanide, proguanil and alexidine). Product Data Sheet
Uses
Reactant for preparation of:
- Nickel diacetylpyridine dioximate pentanuclear, octanuclear and decanuclear cluster complexes
- Decanuclear manganese(II/III) oxo azide diolate clusters as supertetrahedral building-blocks to design extended magnetic networks
- Ruthenium bipyridine complexes entrapped in iron and manganese dicyanamide two-dimensional anionic sheet-like coordination polymeric networks exhibiting dual emission photoluminescence
- Lead dicyanamide-bridged nitronyl nitroxide radical polymeric complex
- Antiferromagnetically coupled hexanuclear copper(II) Schiff base complexes with dicyanamido bridges
- CuII2L based polymeric ladders using dicyanamide bridges
- Luminous hexacoordinated coordination polymers of cadmium(II), containing dicyanamide bridges
General Description
Sodium dicyanamide (NaDCA) is a white to off-white powder.It was used as a leaching reagent for gold recovery and can form a new catalyst system for benzene liquid hydrogenation to cyclohexene[1-2].
References
[1] Li G, et al. Gold-leaching performance and mechanism of sodium dicyanamide. International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials, 2021; 28: 1759–1768.
[2] Schwab F, et al. Simple selective hydrogenation of benzene to cyclohexene in the presence of sodium dicyanamide. Green Chemistry, 2013; 15: 646-649.
