Potassium Iodide - Molecular Formula Ki, 166 Molecular Weight | Nutritional Supplement For Iodization And Industrial Applications, Fluorescence Enhancer In Biomedical Research

With enriched industrial experience, we have been able to distribute and supply a wide spectrum of Potassium Iodide from Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India. KI is used with silver nitrate to make silver iodide (AgI) an important chemical in film photography. KI is a component in some disinfectants and hair treatment chemicals. KI is also used as a fluorescence quenching agent in biomedical research, an application that takes advantage of collisional quenching of fluorescent substances by the iodide ion. However, for several fluorophores addition of KI in AuM-mM concentrations results in increase of fluorescence intensity, and iodide acts as fluorescence enhancer.

Potassium iodide is a component in the electrolyte of dye sensitised solar cells (DSSC) along with iodine.

Potassium iodide finds its most important applications in organic synthesis mainly in the preparation of aryl iodides in the Sandmeyer reaction, starting from aryl amines. Aryl iodides are in turn used to attach aryl groups to other organics by nucleophilic substitution, with iodide ion as the leaving group.