User:Handedplanes/Cesium thiocyanate

Cesium thiocyanate is the chemical compound with the molecular formula CsSCN. It is important salt of the thiocyanate anion, a pseudohalide. The compound has a low melting point relative to most other inorganic salts.

Synthesis and structure
Synthesis by salt metathesis

Pnma.

density 2.99 g/cm-3

Phase transitions
CsSCN is polymorphic

PT to cubic form, CsCl 197ºC 4.83

mp 206(2)ºC

high pressure

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0022369790900095

Two high pressure phase transitions are seen in the regions 10–33 and 54–62 kbar, the first concurring with the result of Actams and Pogson (J. Raman Spectrosc.19, 321, 1988).

Other uses
Used in synthesis of MAPI type things https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.9b06315?casa_token=LGWdSjQ6asIAAAAA:-u2zwj2MIVOU7Zd64L3fpZ-vB7NSMJERBGt5CN6fsOM9OVXCYntT71jivjHk6Cbf_CSLJQmRwxU

Eu:CsNCS https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/33694048/H0444750.pdf?1400032332=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DH0444750.pdf&Expires=1605375526&Signature=BdW7iIdZsjcfIMFZ78RP6GKsw3Sqy7cFBCOTJOiwiss6uQ3XdomEdpVMv5i1SwEd7wIrC5ruALwHhF7DFoJnMGgP3QdTjd7V0j-MK-DajGNRDeJaw5gB7poxH1xRPU92Sua0FqwAkpjFl35ZNzIg-CaNBR9ZuXdSklJJPCOoIMjqSOO53d3sD8f2UCk7Th40o0cvE-Az1KbTaCwMYy7n7mG1XzPugWY6OPq9VFCHgbZXVhy0RaoumSHSbwZQUtSvAYZ8TLBPxCtLo2qA2GmylI06lg4IMZDauOstVS13i26peHZn6qTP3bbjJ97ejXPeU2Y7yu3QT-wvSove-vzn5g__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA