What is Sodium Hydride and what are its uses?

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What is Sodium Hydride and what are its uses?

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Answer 1 · 2016-08-07T17:39:54

Sodium hydride is a low molecular weight hydride with an empirical formula of $N a H$ $NaH$ .

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Sometimes the reagent is supplied as a 50-60% dispersion in mineral oil, which makes this reagent much easier to handle. See this site for usage.

The stuff that you make with $B u^{n} L i$ $Bu^nLi$ and $TMEDA$ $"TMEDA"$ and $N a O B u^{t}$ $NaOBu^t$ and dihydrogen gas (the so-called $LICKOR reagent$ $"LICKOR reagent"$ ), is much more active than the commercially supplied reagent.

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