Product Description
Calcium Hypochlorite
For instance the compound is used to cleave glycols,-hydroxy carboxylic acids and keto acids to yield fragmented aldehydes or carboxylic acids.[6] Calcium hypochlorite can also be used in the haloform reaction to manufacture chloroform.[7] Calcium hypochlorite can be used to oxidize thiol and sulfide byproducts in organic synthesis and thereby reduce their odour and make them safe to dispose
Calcium hypochlorite is produced industrially by treating lime (Ca(OH)2) with chlorine gas. The reaction can be conducted in stages to give various compositions, each with different concentration of calcium hypochlorite, together with unconverted lime and calcium chloride. The full conversion is shown[1]
2 Cl
2 + 2
2 +
2 + 2
2O
Bleaching powder is made with slightly moist slaked lime. It is not a simple mixture of calcium hypochlorite, calcium chloride, and calcium hydroxide. Instead, it is a mixture consisting principally of calcium hypochlorite Ca(OCl)2, dibasic calcium hypochlorite, Ca3(OCl)2(OH)4 (also written as Ca(OCl)2 2 Ca(OH)2), and dibasic calcium chloride, Ca3Cl2(OH)4 (calcium hydroxychloride also written as CaCl2 2 Ca(OH)2)