Guanidinium chloride

• Guanidinium chloride
• Guanidine -HCl
• Aminomethanamidinhydrochlorid
• Carbamidinhydrochlorid
• Guanidine monohydrochloride
• Muriate of guanidine
• GdmCl

Colorless and odorless solid

Fixed

1.34 g · cm -3

185 ° C ( elimination of hydrochloric acid)

Good in water ( 2150 g · l-1 at 20 ° C)

Attention

475 mg · kg -1 ( LD50, rat, oral)

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Guanidine hydrochloride, more guanidinium chloride, the chloride salt of the guanidinium cation.

Representation

Guanidine hydrochloride is formed in the reaction of cyanamide with ammonium chloride in alcoholic solution at 100 ° C. The reaction equation is as follows:

Use

It is used as a chaotropic or denaturing renaturation of proteins in biochemistry. It is also used as an additive for a flux for soldering.