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Dicyandiamde (DICY) is a strong alkaline and water-soluble white crystalline compound, scientifically known as cyanoguanidine.
The chemical is primarily the dimer of cyanamide or cyanoguanidine, which are mainly used in the production of melamine.
Dicyandiamde is also employed as a curing agent for epoxy resins and laminates in circuit boards, powder coatings, and adhesives.
CAS Number: 461-58-5
EC Number: 207-312-8
Molecular formula: C2H4N4
Dicyandiamde (DICY) combines strong alkalinity and water solubility with white crystalline properties, scientifically named as cyanoguanidine.
Chemically, it is mainly the dimer of cyanamide or cyanoguanidine, used primarily in melamine production.
Dicyandiamde, an amide of normal cyanic acid, is a white crystal that melts at 45°C.
Dicyandiamde can be found in water, alcohol, and diethyl ether.
Commercially, it is prepared from carbide process of calcium carbide, derived carbonate, or sulfur removal of carbide by catalytic (mercuric oxide) discharge.
Dicyandiamde spans an array of cyanogen halides with ammonia.
Upon heating at 150°C, dicyanodiamide polymerizes to melamine with disiamyldiamine and tricyantriamide.
Dicyandiamde is a nitrile derived from guanidine.
Dicyandiamde can be prepared as a cyanamide dimer.
Dicyanodiamide is a colorless solid that dissolves in water, acetone, and alcohol, but is insoluble in nonpolar organic solvents.
Dicyandiamde is a guanidine in which one of the amino hydrogens of guanidine is substituted with a cyano group.
Dicyandiamde is used in fertilizer, pharmaceutical, explosive, petroleum well drilling mud, and dye production.
Dicyandiamde plays a role as a curing agent, flame retardant, fertilizer, explosive, and nitrification inhibitor.
Dicyandiamde is a member of guanidines and a nitrile.
Dicyandiamde is produced by processing cyanamide with base.
Dicyandiamde is produced in the soil by the degradation of cyanamides.
Various useful compounds are produced from guanidines and melamine, including dicyanodiamide.
For instance, acetylguanamine and benzoguanamine are prepared by condensing cyanoguanidine with nitrile:
(H 2 N) 2 C=NCN + RCN → (CNH 2 ) 2 (CR)N 3
Dicyandiamde is also used as a slow-release fertilizer.
Dicyandiamde used to be used as a fuel in some explosives.
In the adhesive industry, it serves as a curing agent for epoxy resins.
CHEMICAL FORMULA: C2H4N4
MOLAR MASS: 84.08 g/mol
APPEARANCE: White Crystals
DENSITY: 1.400 g/cm3
MELTING POINT: 209.5°C (409.1°F; 482.6 K)
BOILING POINT: 252°C (486°F; 525 K)
SOLUBILITY IN WATER: 41.3 g/l
DAILY P: -0.52
Henry's law constant (kH): 2.25 × 10^-10 atm·m3/mol
Magnetic susceptibility (χ): -44.55 × 10^-6 cm3/mol
Dicyandiamide, commonly known as DICY, has long been used in coatings, single-pack adhesives, film adhesives, and more. However, it is challenging to dissolve in epoxy resin.
Dicyandiamde has been reported that dicyandiamide can be dissolved in epoxy resin with a solvent, but even after being converted into a powder, heated, mixed on a triple roll, or processed by an extruder, it is still mixed with epoxy resin.
Usually, Dicyandiamde lacks an accelerator mixture, and the application time is over six months.
The curing mechanism of dicyandiamide is more complex, with cyano having reactivity in addition to the four active hydrogens in the reaction. Furthermore, dicyandiamide also functions as a catalytic curing agent. For E-51 epoxy resin, while the theoretical dosage of dicyandiamide is 11 g per gram of resin, the actual dosage is 4~10 g, especially for solid epoxy resins.
In the leather industry, it fills void spaces such as the edges of leather pieces.
Dicyandiamde is used in fertilizer coatings, fireproof overalls, epoxy laminates, water conditioning, and rubber chemicals.
Dicyandiamde is also used as a curing agent for epoxy structures and circuit boards, as well as laminates for powder coatings and coatings.
Dicyandiamde serves as a curing material for set epoxies.
Dicyandiamide is an intermediate for melamine production and a basic component of amino plastics and resins. Slow and continuous nitrogen-release fertilizers, fire-resistant materials, circuit boards, powder coatings, water treatment chemicals, dye fixing, leather and rubber chemicals, explosives, and preservation agents are used in a wide range of organic chemical coatings, including epoxy laminates.
Dicyandiamide is abbreviated as DICY or DCD.
Dicyandiamde is an organic substance with the chemical formula C2H4N4.
Dicyandiamde is a nitrile derivative of cyanamide dimer and guanidine.
Dicyandiamdes chemical formula is C2H4N4.
Dicyandiamde is a white crystalline powder.
Dicyandiamde dissolves in water, alcohol, ethylene glycol, and dimethylformamide, but is nearly insoluble in ether and benzene.
Dicyandiamde is stable when dry.
Dicyandiamide is a guanidine in which one of the amino hydrogens is substituted with a cyano group.
Dicyandiamde is used in fertilizer, pharmaceutical, explosive, petroleum well drilling mud, and dye production.
Dicyandiamde functions as a curing agent, flame retardant, fertilizer, explosive, and nitrification inhibitor.
Dicyandiamde is a member of guanidines and a nitrile.
The application of nitrification inhibitors, widely used nitrification inhibitor Dicyandiamide (DCD), inhibits the activity of ammonium-oxidizing bacteria, leading to longer ammonium retention and reduced production.
Studies have shown that the leaching of DCD from agricultural soils to aquatic ecosystems can strongly alter the community composition of benthic stream bacteria and algae and may impact the stoichiometry of stream nutrient cycling.
While there is extensive literature on the mechanisms and benefits of nitrification inhibitors, there are few studies focusing on the effects of DCD application on other microbes in the rice paddy system.
Dicyandiamide (DICY) is an intermediate compound in the production of melamine and a fundamental component of amino plastics and resins.
Dicyandiamde is used in the production of a wide range of organic chemicals, including slow and continuous nitrogen-releasing fertilizers, fire-resistant materials, epoxy laminates for circuit boards, powder coatings, adhesives, water treatment chemicals, dye fixing, leather and rubber chemicals, explosives, and pharmaceuticals.
Dicyandiamide is a raw material for melamine production.
Dicyandiamde is also an intermediate for pharmaceuticals and dyes.
In medicine, guanidine nitrate is prepared from it for sulfonamide drugs. Thiourea, guanidine, nitrocellulose stabilizers, rubber vulcanization accelerators, steel surface hardening agents, printing and dyeing fixatives, synthetic leather fillers, and adhesives can also be prepared from it.
Dicyandiamide has various applications:
It serves as a precursor for guanidine salts and trisianodiamine.
Various guanidine salts can be produced by reacting dicyandiamide with an acid.
Benzotriandiamine, obtained from the reaction of dicyandiamide and phenyl nitrile, is an intermediate for coatings, laminates, and molding powders.
Dicyandiamide resin prepared by the reaction of dicyandiamide and formaldehyde is used as a dye fixative.
In fertilizers, dicyandiamide compound fertilizer can control the activity of nitrifying bacteria, adjusting the conversion rate of nitrogen fertilizers in the soil, reducing nitrogen loss, and enhancing fertilizer use efficiency.
As a fine chemical intermediate, it is used in medicine for preparing guanidine nitrate, sulfonamides, etc.
Dicyandiamde is also used to prepare thiourea, nitrocellulose stabilizers, rubber vulcanization accelerators, steel surface hardening agents, synthetic leather fillers, adhesives, etc.
In the production process, lime nitrogen is used as a raw material to hydrolyze with water.
The resulting suspension is filtered under reduced pressure to remove the Ca(OH)2 filter residue from the hydrolysis liquid, and the filtrate is passed into carbon dioxide for lime removal to produce a cyanamide solution. The solution is then polymerized under alkaline conditions at a temperature of 74°C.
Dicyandiamide, also known as Dicyandiamde, is a hidden curing agent that has been used for a long time and is commonly used in coatings, single-pack adhesives, film adhesives, etc.
Dicyandiamine is a white crystal with a melting point of 207-209°C. It has low toxicity, but it is difficult to dissolve in epoxy resin.
Dicyandiamde has been reported that dicyandiamide can be dissolved in epoxy resin with a solvent, but even after being converted into a powder, heated, mixed on a triple roll, or processed by an extruder, Dicyandiamde is still mixed with epoxy resin.
Usually, Dicyandiamde lacks an accelerator mixture, and the application time is over six months.
The curing mechanism of Dicyandiamide (DICY) is more complex, involving four active hydrogens in addition to cyanide reactivity.
Moreover, Dicyandiamide also serves as a catalytic curing agent.
For E-51 epoxy resin, the theoretical dosage of Dicyandiamide is 11 g per gram of resin, while the actual dosage for Solid epoxy resin is 4~10 g.
The solubility in water is 2.26% at 13°C, and the solubility in hot water is relatively high.
The solubility in anhydrous ethanol, which dissolves in liquid ammonia, is 1.2% at 13°C, while it is insoluble in benzene and chloroform.
Dicyandiamde has low toxicity, with an LD50 value (oral, mice) > 4000 mg/kg.
Dicyandiamide (DICY) is produced from the polymerization of cyanamide in the presence of a base. Dicyandiamide typically forms pure white crystals, is stable when dry, and dissolves in liquid ammonia.
Dicyandiamde is partially soluble in hot water.
Dicyandiamide is not flammable.
Dicyandiamide is commonly used as a curing agent for epoxies and as a stabilizing compound for PVC floorings.
Another popular use of Dicyandiamide (DICY) is as a flame retardant additive in the paper and textile industries.
Dicyandiamide can be used as a slow-release fertilizer.
Dicyandiamde also finds applications in the adhesive industry, powder coatings, dielectric coatings, water treatment chemicals, rubber, dye fixing, and pharmaceutical applications.
Dicyandiamide (DICY) is a strong alkali and water-soluble white crystalline compound with the scientific name cyanoguanidine.
The chemical is primarily a dimer of cyanamide or cyanoguanidine used in the production of melamine.
Dicyandiamide, which is the amide of normal cyanic acid, is a white crystal that melts at 45°C.
Dicyandiamde readily dissolves in water, alcohol, and diethyl ether. Commercially, Dicyandiamde is prepared from calcium carbonate derived carbide or through sulfur removal using a catalyst (mercuric oxide) from thio-urea.
Dicyandiamide is prepared from ammonia and cyanogen halides.
When heated at 150°C, dicyandiamide polymerizes to form dicyandiamide and tricyantriamide, which is melamine.
In the leather industry, it fills hollow parts of the skin such as edges. Dicyandiamide is used in fertilizer coatings, flame-resistant coatings, epoxy laminates, water treatment, and rubber chemicals.
Dicyandiamde also serves as a curing agent for epoxy resins and laminates in circuit boards, powder coatings, and adhesives in the adhesive industry.
Dicyandiamide is known by various synonyms, including DICY or DCD.
Dicyandiamde is an organic compound with the chemical formula C2H4N4.
Dicyandiamde is a cyanoguanidine dimer and a cyanide derivative of guanidine.
The chemical formula is C2H4N4.
Dicyandiamde appears as white crystalline powder.
Dicyandiamde is soluble in water, alcohol, ethylene glycol, and dimethylformamide, but is virtually insoluble in ether and benzene.
Dicyandiamde is stable when dry.
Dicyandiamide is a guanidine with one of the amino hydrogens substituted by a cyano group.
Dicyandiamde finds use in fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, explosives, drilling muds for oil wells, and the production of dye fixing agents.
Dicyandiamde plays a role as a curing agent, flame retardant, fertilizer, explosive, and nitrification inhibitor.
Dicyandiamde is a member of guanidines and a nitrile.
Dicyandiamide, an organic compound with the chemical formula (NH2)2C=NH, is a white crystalline solid that is soluble in water and polar organic solvents.
Dicyandiamide is used in the production of melamine and other chemicals, as well as in water and waste treatment.
Additionally, it is utilized as a flame retardant and curing agent in adhesive and coating production.
Dicyandiamide (DICY) serves as an intermediate in melamine production and is a fundamental component of amino plastics and resins.
Dicyandiamde finds use in the production of a wide range of organic chemicals, including slow and continuous nitrogen-releasing fertilizers, non-flammable materials, epoxy laminates for circuit boards, powder coatings, adhesives, water treatment chemicals, dye fixing agents, leather and rubber chemicals, explosives, and pharmaceuticals.
Dicyandiamide is also employed as a vulcanization accelerator and hardener in organic synthesis and resin synthesis.
Dicyandiamde is a key raw material in melamine production.
Additionally, it serves as an intermediate in pharmaceuticals and dye production.
In the field of medicine, guanidine nitrate is prepared using Dicyandiamide, for the production of sulfonamide drugs.
Dicyandiamide also finds application in preparing thiourea, guanidine, nitrocellulose stabilizers, rubber vulcanization accelerators, steel surface hardeners, printing and dyeing fixatives, synthetic leather fillers, and adhesives.
The main applications of Dicyandiamide include:
Dicyandiamide as a raw material for guanidine salts and trisyanodamine.
Dicyandiamide can be reacted with acid to produce various guanidine salts.
The reaction of Dicyandiamide and phenylnitrile yields benzotriamidine, an intermediate for coatings, laminates, and molding powders.
Dicyandiamide resin, prepared by reacting Dicyandiamide and formaldehyde, is used as a fixing agent in dyeing.
Dicyandiamide compound fertilizer can control the activity of nitrification bacteria, adjusting the conversion rate of nitrogenous fertilizers in the soil, reducing nitrogen loss, and increasing fertilizer utilization efficiency.
Dicyandiamide serves as a fine chemical intermediate.
In medicine, it's used for the preparation of guanidine nitrate and sulfonamides.
Dicyandiamde's also used to prepare thiourea, nitrocellulose stabilizers, rubber vulcanization accelerators, steel surface hardening agents, synthetic leather fillers, and adhesives.
The pharmaceutical intermediate 5-azasitocin can be obtained from the reaction of formic acid and Dicyandiamide.
Dicyandiamde is used in fertilizers, nitrocellulose stabilizers, rubber vulcanization accelerators, as well as guanidine salts, melamine, barbituric acid, etc.
Dicyandiamide (DICY) is an intermediate in the production of melamine and a fundamental component of amino plastics and resins.
Dicyandiamde is utilized in the production of a variety of organic chemicals, including slow and continuous nitrogen-releasing fertilizers, non-flammable materials, epoxy laminates for circuit boards, powder coatings, adhesives, water treatment chemicals, dye fixing agents, leather and rubber chemicals, explosives, and pharmaceuticals.
Dicyandiamde also finds use as a slow-release fertilizer.
Dicyandiamde used to be used as a fuel in some explosives.
Dicyandiamide is also employed as a curing agent for epoxies in the adhesive industry.
Dicyandiamde is also used as a flame retardant additive in the paper and textile industries.
Additional applications include powder coatings, dielectric coatings, water treatment chemicals, rubber, dye fixing agents, and pharmaceutical applications. Dicyandiamide is also used as a stabilizing compound for PVC floorings.
SYNONYMS:
disiyandiamid
SİYANOGUANİDİN
461-58-5
disiyanodiamid
2-siyanoguanidin
N-Siyanoguanidin
1-Siyanoguanidin
Guanidin, siyano-
pirozet DO
Dicyandiamido
disiyandiamin
Epikür DICY 7
Epicure DICY 15
Araldit HT 986
Bakalit VE 2560
Araldit XB 2879B
Araldit XB 2979B
riskli
ACR-H 3636
XB 2879B
Dicyandiamin [Almanca]
Guanidin-1-karbonitril
MGK 2031
CCRIS 3478
Guanidin, N-siyano-
AI3-14632
HSDB 2126
EINECS 207-312-8
UNII-M9B1R0C16H
M9B1R0C16H
3-siyanoguanidin
DTXSID1020354
Guanidin-15N3, siyano-15N-
NSC2031
NSC-2031
AT 207-312-8
DTXCID50354
siyano-guanidin
157480-33-6
26591-10-6
CAS-461-58-5
Metformin kirliliği A
MFCD00008066
Siyanoguanidin
disyanadiamid
disiyanediamid
siyano-guanidin
guanidin, siyano
1-siyano-guanidin
Siyanamid metaboliti
Siyanoguanidin,(S)
Disiyandiamid, %99
Dyhard 100S
Guanidina, N-ciano-
