sodium borohydride

Various steroids and vitamin A are prepared using sodium borohydride in at least one step.

It is more conventienly prepared in two steps from sodium borohydride.

Sodium borohydride has been considered as a solid state hydrogen storage candidate.

The related reagent sodium borohydride is slow in this reaction.

Camphor can also be reduced to isoborneol using sodium borohydride.

In the presence of metal catalysts, sodium borohydride releases hydrogen.

Spontaneous ignition can result from solution of sodium borohydride in dimethylformamide.

Stoichiometric reductions are also popular, as can be effected with sodium borohydride.

Nanoparticles can be prepared by using sodium borohydride as the key reductant.

Reduction with sodium borohydride in ethanol affords the neutral Borromeand.

The dinitrogen ligand is not reduced to aqueous sodium borohydride.

Subsequent reduction using sodium borohydride produced alcohol 51 .

The working temperature of a direct sodium borohydride fuel cell is 70 C (158 F).

Other reducing agents are lithium aluminium hydride and sodium borohydride.

Sodium borohydride reduces aldehydes and ketones to give the related alcohols.

Even more reduction (sodium borohydride) and acylation resulted in epimeric di-acetate 9.

The industrial process is analogous, but hydrogenation is used instead of the sodium borohydride reduction.

Sodium borohydride can also be produced by the action of NaH on powdered borosilicate glass.

A typical synthesis involved the reaction of NaGeO with sodium borohydride.

Sodium borohydride presents a fire hazard due to its reducing nature, and the liberation of hydrogen on contact with acid.

Sodium borohydride is an odorless white to gray-white microcrystalline powder which often forms lumps.

Sodium borohydride will reduce chloramines, but this reaction is greatly sped up with acid catalysis.

At the same time, the chlorine binds with the sodium from sodium borohydride to turn into a compound that makes up ordinary table salt.

Replies: I do not have data in hand, but my recollection is that sodium borohydride is relatively stable in water.

Another route entails treating sodium borohydride with mercury(II) cyanide.