Thiourea Dioxide

Thiourea diooxide (Molecular Formula: CH4N2O2S. CAS Number: 1758-73-2) is also called formamidine-sulfinic and is often abbreviated as TDO or TUD. Thiourea dioxide is a powdered stable compound, which dissolves in water and decomposes gradually to produce sulfoxylic acid through formamidine-sulfinic acid to exhibit a reducing action. This reaction is promoted by the application of heat or in the presence of an alkali, and a strong reducing action is thereby exhibited. But, this reaction is slow, and particularly in an acidic to weakly alkaline region. 

Thiourea dioxide (TDO) is a strong reductant which re-arranges under alkaline conditions to form formamidine sulphinic acid. This product is used in leather processing industry, paper, pulp and board industry, photographic industry, textile processing industry, bleaching and reducing agents. This product is also a component of decolorisation agents. TDO has been very effective on a wide variety of pulp sources as a reductive bleaching aid in the pulp and paper industry. The application of TDO is crucial to achieve optimal brightness gain in the deinking process.

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