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    Lithium aluminium hydride, commonly abbreviated to LAH, is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Li[AlH4] or LiAlH4. It is a white solid, discovered...
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    generated in THF from lithium aluminium hydride. The reaction with lithium hydride in ether produces lithium aluminium hydride: AlH3 + LiH → Li[AlH4]...
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    Lithium hydride is an inorganic compound with the formula LiH. This alkali metal hydride is a colorless solid, although commercial samples are grey. Characteristic...
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    metal hydrides react with metal halides. Lithium aluminium hydride (often abbreviated as LAH) arises from reactions of lithium hydride with aluminium chloride...
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  • Thumbnail for Sodium bis(2-methoxyethoxy)aluminium hydride
    reagent, SMEAH is comparable with lithium aluminium hydride (LAH, LiAlH4). It is a safer alternative to LAH and related hydrides. SMEAH exhibits similar reducing...
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    Diborane (redirect from Boron hydride)
    sodium hydride (NaH), lithium hydride (LiH) or lithium aluminium hydride (LiAlH4): 8 BF3 + 6 LiH → B2H6 + 6 LiBF4 Lithium hydride used for this purpose must...
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  • Thumbnail for Sodium aluminium hydride
    suspension in diethyl ether, it reacts with lithium chloride to give the popular reagent lithium aluminium hydride: LiCl + NaAlH4 → LiAlH4 + NaCl The compound...
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    stronger reducing agent than lithium borohydride and lithium aluminium hydride. LiBHEt3 is prepared by the reaction of lithium hydride (LiH) and triethylborane...
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    soluble in ethers, whilst remaining safer to handle than lithium aluminium hydride. Lithium borohydride may be prepared by the metathesis reaction, which...
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    Mg(anthracene) + H2 → MgH2 the reaction of diethylmagnesium with lithium aluminium hydride product of complexed MgH2 e.g. MgH2.THF by the reaction of phenylsilane...
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    refer to the reduction of a ketone by lithium aluminium hydride, but not to the oxidation of lithium aluminium hydride by a ketone. Many oxidations involve...
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  • Metal hydrides (sodium hydride, lithium aluminium hydride, uranium trihydride) Partially or fully alkylated derivatives of metal and nonmetal hydrides (diethylaluminium...
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    (nitro group, nitrile, ester). In their handling properties, lithium aluminium hydride and sodium borohydride (and their derivatives) strongly differ...
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  • agents for the non-catalytic conversion to amines include lithium aluminium hydride, lithium borohydride, diborane, or elemental sodium in alcohol solvents...
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  • group with hydrogen by metal alkoxyaluminium hydride reagents. Sodium borohydride and lithium aluminium hydride are commonly used for the reduction of organic...
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    synthesized in 1951 by treating dimethylberyllium, Be(CH3)2, with lithium aluminium hydride, LiAlH4. Purer BeH2 forms from the pyrolysis of di-tert-butylberyllium...
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    include lithium aluminium hydride (LiAlH4), lithium triethylborohydride, n-butyllithium and tert-butyllithium. Metallic lithium and its complex hydrides, such...
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  • azetidinones (β-lactams) with lithium aluminium hydride. Even more effective is a mixture of lithium aluminium hydride and aluminium trichloride, a source of...
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    tri-sec-butylborohydride), a more strongly reducing derivative. Lithium aluminium hydride, a more strongly reducing reagent, capable of reducing esters...
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    important aluminium hydride is lithium aluminium hydride (LiAlH4), which is used as a reducing agent in organic chemistry. It can be produced from lithium hydride...
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  • Thumbnail for Polonium hydride
    synthesis include the reaction of polonium tetrachloride (PoCl4) with lithium aluminium hydride (LiAlH4), which only produces elemental polonium, and the reaction...
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  • agents able to effect this reaction include metal hydrides such as lithium aluminium hydride, or lithium borohydride in mixed solvents of tetrahydrofuran...
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  • Zinc(II) hydride was first synthesized in 1947 by Hermann Schlesinger, via a reaction between dimethylzinc Zn(CH3)2 and lithium aluminium hydride Li[AlH4];...
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  • laboratory scale reactions it was made obsolete by the introduction of lithium aluminium hydride. Sodium metal is a one-electron reducing agent. Four equivalents...
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  • Thumbnail for Tributyltin hydride
    synthesized by a reduction of tributyltin chloride with lithium aluminium hydride. The hydride is a distillable liquid that is mildly sensitive to air...
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  • accomplish this task include lithium aluminium hydride, sodium borohydride, alkoxy borohydrides, alkoxy aluminium hydrides, and boranes. Although stoichiometric...
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  • tetracarbonyl. The complex has C5v symmetry. The compound reacts with lithium aluminium hydride to give the paramagnetic cluster (C5H5)4Ni4H3. The related...
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  • nitro compounds with metal hydrides gives good yields of azo compounds. For example, one could use: Lithium aluminium hydride Zinc metal with sodium hydroxide...
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    similar fashion. Organoperoxides can be reduced to alcohols with lithium aluminium hydride, as described in this idealized equation: 4 ROOH + LiAlH4 → LiAlO2...
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  • Thumbnail for Copper hydride
    devised by Wurtz. Molecular copper hydride can be formed by reducing copper iodide with lithium aluminium hydride in ether and pyridine. 4CuI + LiAlH4...
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