Sodium dicyanamide

Chemical properties

White to off-white powder

The Uses of Sodium dicyanamide

Sodium dicyanamide is used or the production of pharmaceuticals (e.g. chlorhexidine, biguanide, proguanil and alexidine). Product Data Sheet

The Uses of Sodium dicyanamide

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.