Potassium Perchlorate solubility

[Arthur Dent]

I have read that Potassium perchlorate has very little solubility in water, but is there a solvent that will efficiently dissolve KClO4 ?

 

More importantly, are there incompatibilities with solvents such as acetone, ethanol, methanol or isopropanol? Will any of these dissolve KCLO4 more efficiently than water?

 

Robert

[mississippichem]

Not so sure about a good solvent, but I wouldn't want to dissolve any chlorate or perchlorate salts in an alcohol. Perchlorates are the slowest oxidizers or the chloro-oxoanion series but their stand reduction potentials are still around ~(+1.2) V. Maybe acetonitrile or acetic acid would be good solvents.