Your question is very general, and hence we cannot give specific answers.
Periodic acid is a strong oxidizer. Salts of periodic acid, such as KIO4, NaIO4, and Na3H2IO6 also are strong oxidizers and they also form many
interesting complexes with transition metals in unusually high oxidation states.
It can be used in organic chemistry to split diols with the two OH-groups on adjacent carbon atoms, with the HO-group and broken carbon bond connected
to an O=group.
Periodates.
If I look at your signature to the list of collected compounds, and if I look at your posts, then, however, I think it is better to first try to get
some other more common and basic chemicals. Periodates and periodic acid are expensive and are not the first thing for an amateur lab. If you want to
do interesting experiments with these compounds, then you also need other reagents to do the experiments with.
I have written a web page about starting a home lab, it may be interesting for you. It also contains info on which chemicals to obtain as a starter.
https://woelen.homescience.net/science/chem/misc/homelab.htm...
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EDIT(woelen): Moved thread from organic chemistry to chemistry in general.
[Edited on 11-2-20 by woelen] |