Sodium amalgam, commonly denoted Na(Hg), is an alloy of mercury and sodium. The term amalgam is used for alloys, intermetallic compounds, and solutions...

alkoxide of sodium is produced instead of the alkali solution. Aluminium can form an amalgam through a reaction with mercury. Aluminium amalgam may be prepared...

with HPS at this time. An amalgam of metallic sodium and mercury lies at the coolest part of the lamp and provides the sodium and mercury vapor that is...

β-Alumina is not an isomorphic form of aluminium oxide (Al2O3), but a sodium polyaluminate. It is a hard polycrystalline ceramic, which, when prepared...

zinc and acetic acid reduce it to cinnamic acid, C6H5CH=CHCO2H, whilst sodium amalgam reduces it to hydrocinnamic acid, C6H5CH2CH2CO2H. Ortho-nitrophenylpropiolic...

or aldehydes, and hydroxylamines. The reduction of oximes by sodium metal, sodium amalgam, hydrogenation, or reaction with hydride reagents produces amines...

ammonium ions form an amalgam. Such species are prepared by the addition of sodium amalgam to a solution of ammonium chloride. This amalgam eventually decomposes...

amalgam that modifies its electrochemistry greatly. For example, it is possible for sodium cations to be reduced at a mercury cathode to form sodium amalgam...

stable to acidic conditions and is cleaved back to the alcohol using sodium amalgam. Methanesulfonyl chloride react with primary and secondary amines to...

and later by reducing dibromobarbituric acid with a combination of sodium amalgam and hydrogen iodide. In 1879, the French chemist Édouard Grimaux synthesized...

lactone upon heating. Finally, the aldonic acid lactone is reduced with sodium amalgam non-stereoselectively to produce heptose; two isomers with both stereoisomers...

(olefins)(3) after alcohol functionalization and reductive elimination using sodium amalgam[1][2] or SmI2.[3] The reaction is named after the French chemist Marc...

also resistant in forming amalgams. Other elements that do not readily form amalgams with mercury include platinum. Sodium amalgam is a common reducing agent...

transesterifications. Epoxide ring-opening gives hydroxyalkyl esters. Sodium amalgam reduces it to isobutyric acid. A polymeric form of methacrylic acid...

Lindlar catalyst Sodium amalgam (Na(Hg)) Sodium-lead alloy (Na + Pb) Zinc amalgam (Zn(Hg)) (reagent for Clemmensen reduction) Diborane Sodium borohydride (Na...

alternative method involves reducing benzophenone with sodium borohydride or with zinc dust or with sodium amalgam and water. It has uses in perfume and pharmaceutical...

übergeführt werden können. [During the reduction [of benzene] with sodium amalgam or phosphonium iodide, six atoms of hydrogen are added in the extreme...

use solid acids. Typical of oximes, the compound can be reduced by sodium amalgam to produce cyclohexylamine. It can also be hydrolyzed with acetic acid...

its use as a colouring agent for certain chromatography experiments. Sodium amalgam reduces it to dihydroresorcin, which when heated to 150 to 160 °C with...

1038/nchem.2161. PMID 25698335. Buszek, Keith R. (15 April 2001). "Sodium Amalgam". Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. Chichester, UK: John...

reducing agents commonly lithium aluminium hydride (LAH), sodium borohydride,aluminum amalgam or Raney nickel are used in suitable solvents like isopropyl...

reduction of a quaternary ammonium cation to a tertiary amine with sodium amalgam: This organic reaction was first described in 1909 by the German chemist...

precursor to a good subsection of other chemicals. On reduction with sodium amalgam piperic acid forms α- and β-dihydropiperic acid, C12H12O4, and the latter...

acid by hydrogenation. Originally it was prepared by reduction with sodium amalgam in water and by electrolysis. A characteristic reaction of phenylpropanoic...

presence of sulfuric acid. In the presence of proton donors, the action of sodium amalgam on methacrylic acid also gives isobutyric acid. The acid reacts as a...

small-scale route for the production of silane is from the action of sodium amalgam on dichlorosilane, SiH2Cl2, to yield monosilane along with some yellow...

separation methods) and then the desired lactone is reduced with a sodium amalgam. As illustrated below, D-arabinose is converted to a mixture of D-glucononitrile...

the most common entry to organorhenium chemistry. Its reduction with sodium amalgam gives Na[Re(CO)5] with rhenium in the formal oxidation state −1. Dirhenium...

desulfonylation is typically accomplished with active metals or salts (sodium amalgam, aluminium amalgam, magnesium, samarium(II) iodide), tin hydrides (tributyltin...

dimethylmercury, by reacting 2 moles of MeI with a 2/1-molar sodium amalgam (2 moles of sodium, 1 mol of mercury). Iodomethane and other organic iodine compounds...