Lithium borohydride

• Catalog No.: 32563
• CAS Number: 16949-15-8
• M. F.: BLi
• M. W.: 17.752
• Purity: 95%

SYNONYMS

• Title: 硼氢化锂
• IUPAC name: lithium(1+) ion boranuide
• IUPAC Traditional name: lithium(1+) ion boranuide
• Synonyms: Lithium tetrahydridoborate

DATABASE IDS

• EC Number: 241-021-7
• CAS Number: 16949-15-8
• MDL Number: MFCD00011088
• Merck Index: 145525

PROPERTIES

• Purity: 95%
• Apperance: Powder
• Density: 0.66
• Melting Point: ca 280°C dec.
• Solubility: Soluble in ether, THF, and aliphatic amines
• GHS Hazard statements: H260-H301-H311-H331-H314-H318
• European Hazard Symbols: Toxic (T)
• European Hazard Symbols: Flammable (F)
• GHS Precautionary statements: P280-P303+P361+P353-P305+P351+P338-P310-P370+P378I-P402+P404
• Risk Statements: 14/15-23/24/25-34
• RTECS: ED2725000
• Safety Statements: 26-36/37/39-43-45
• Storage Warning: Moisture Sensitive
• TSCA Listed: 是
• Hazard Class: 4.3
• UN Number: UN1413
• Packing Group: I

REFERENCES

• Versatile reducing agent showing significant and useful differences from sodium borohydride. Review: Tetrahedron, 35, 567 (1979). For use in reduction of esters, see: J. Org. Chem., 47, 1604 (1982).
• The combination of LiBH₄ and TMS chloride is a versatile, powerful reducing agent, which will reduce carboxylic acids, amino acids, amides, nitriles, etc: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 28, 218 (1989).
• Useful catalyst, in acetonitrile, for conversion of acid-sensitive aldehydes to 1,3-oxathiolanes and 1,3-dithiolanes: Synlett, 238 (2001).
• Monograph: J. Seyden-Penne, Reductions by the Alumino- and Borohydrides In Organic Synthesis, 2nd ed., Wiley, N.Y. (1997).