What is sodium methoxide? Marco Chemicals Co

What is sodium methoxide?

Sodium methoxide (in English: Sodium methoxide) with the chemical formula CH3NaO is a chemical compound with Pubcom ID 10942334. whose molar mass is 54.02. The appearance of this compound is a white solid.

۲NaOH + 2CH₂ → ۲CH₃ONa

In this part of the article, we prefer to fully explain sodium methoxide to you: sodium methoxide is called sodium methylate, methanol or sodium salt. Sodium methylate is a white hygroscopic powder used in various organic syntheses.

How is sodium methoxide obtained?

This compound or sodium methoxide can be produced by reacting elemental sodium with methyl alcohol or methanol. It is produced commercially from sodium chloride and methanol in an electrolytic process under inert gas.

It is better to know that sodium methoxide is a strong reducing agent and strongly reacts with oxidants. This material is a strong base and strongly reacts with acid and is corrosive.

This substance is the conjugate base of methanol. Methanol is a very weak acid (its dissociation constant is very low), so its conjugate base is very strong.

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