Sodium periodate

Sodium periodate

Names
IUPAC name Sodium periodate
Other names Sodium metaperiodate
Identifiers
CAS Number	7790-28-5 Y
ChEBI	CHEBI:75226 N
ChemSpider	58683 Y
EC Number	232-197-6
Jmol 3D model	Interactive image
PubChem	23667635
RTECS number	SD4550000
InChI InChI=1S/HIO4.Na/c2-1(3,4)5;/h(H,2,3,4,5);/q;+1/p-1 Y Key: JQWHASGSAFIOCM-UHFFFAOYSA-M Y InChI=1/HIO4.Na/c2-1(3,4)5;/h(H,2,3,4,5);/q;+1/p-1 Key: JQWHASGSAFIOCM-REWHXWOFAO InChI=1S/HIO4.Na/c2-1(3,4)5;/h(H,2,3,4,5);/q;+1/p-1 Key: JQWHASGSAFIOCM-UHFFFAOYSA-M
SMILES [O-]I(=O)(=O)=O.[Na+]
Properties
Chemical formula	NaIO4
Molar mass	213.8918 g/mol
Appearance	white crystals
Density	3.865 g/cm3 (anhydrous) 3/210 g/cm3
Melting point	300 °C (572 °F; 573 K) (anhydrous) 175 °C (347 °F; 448 K) (trihydrate) (decomposes)
Solubility in water	soluble
Solubility	soluble in acids
Structure
Crystal structure	tetragonal (anhydrous) trigonal (trihydrate)
Vapor pressure	{{{value}}}
Related compounds
Other anions	sodium perchlorate, sodium perbromate
Other cations	potassium periodate, periodic acid
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Infobox references

Sodium periodate is an inorganic salt, composed of a sodium cation and the periodate anion. It may also be regarded as the sodium salt of periodic acid. Like all periodates it can exist in two different forms: sodium metaperiodate, which has the formula NaIO₄, and sodium orthoperiodate, normally this means sodium hydrogen periodate (Na₂H₃IO₆) but the fully reacted sodium orthoperiodate salt, Na₅IO₆, can also be prepared. Both salts are useful oxidising agents.

Preparation

Classically, periodate was most commonly produced in the form of sodium hydrogen periodate (Na₃H₂IO₆). This is commercially available, but can also be produced by the oxidation of iodates with chlorine and sodium hydroxide. Or, similarly, from iodides by oxidation with bromine and sodium hydroxide:

NaIO₃ + Cl₂ + 4 NaOH → Na₃H₂IO₆ + 2 NaCl + H₂O

NaI + 4 Br₂ + 10 NaOH → Na₃H₂IO₆ + 8 NaBr + 4 H₂O

Modern industrial scale production involves the electrochemical oxidation of iodates, on a PbO₂ anode, with the following standard electrode potential:

H₅IO₆ + H⁺ + 2 e⁻ → IO⁻
₃ + 3 H₂O      E° = 1.6 V

Sodium metaperiodate can be prepared by the dehydration of sodium hydrogen periodate with nitric acid.

Na₃H₂IO₆ + 2 HNO₃ → NaIO₄ + 2 NaNO₃ + 2 H₂O

Structure

Sodium metaperiodate (NaIO₄) forms tetragonal crystals (space group I4₁/_a) consisting of slightly distorted IO⁻
₄ ions with average I–O bond distances of 1.775 Å; the Na⁺ ions are surrounded by 8 oxygen atoms at distances of 2.54 and 2.60 Å.

Sodium hydrogen periodate (Na₂H₃IO₆) forms orthorhombic crystals (space group Pnnm). Iodine and sodium atoms are both surrounded by an octahedral arraigement of 6 oxygen atoms; however the NaO₆ octahedron is strongly distorted. IO₆ and NaO₆ groups are linked via common vertices and edges.

Powder diffraction indicates that Na₅IO₆ crystallises in the monoclinic system (space group C2/m).

Uses

Further information: Periodate reactions

Sodium periodate can be used in solution to open saccharide rings between vicinal diols leaving two aldehyde groups. This process is often used in labeling saccharides with fluorescent molecules or other tags such as biotin. Because the process requires vicinal diols, periodate oxidation is often used to selectively label the 3′-termini of RNA (ribose has vicinal diols) instead of DNA as deoxyribose does not have vicinal diols.

NaIO₄ is used in organic chemistry to cleave diols to produce two aldehydes.

In 2013 US Army announced that it would replace environmentally harmful chemicals barium nitrate and potassium perchlorate with sodium metaperiodate for use in their tracer ammunition.

See also

• lead tetraacetate

References

• See Fatiadi, Synthesis (1974) 229–272 for a review of periodate chemistry.