The important aluminium hydride is lithium aluminium hydride ( LiAlH 4 ), which is used in as a reducing agent in organic chemistry.
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For example, after undergoing substitution reactions, cyanoalkanes may be hydrolyzed to carboxylic acids, or reduced to primary amines using lithium aluminium hydride.
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For instance conversion of the ketone to an alcohol by lithium aluminium hydride can be considered a reduction but the hydride is also a good nucleophile in nucleophilic substitution.
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For example, reduction with lithium aluminium hydride yields a mixture of 1, 4-dihydropyridine, 1, 2-dihydropyridine, and 2, 5-dihydropyridine.
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Some popular compounds include lithium aluminium hydride ( LiAlH 4 ), lithium triethylborohydride, n-Butyllithium and tert-butyllithium are commonly used as extremely strong bases called superbase.
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For example, it is usual to refer to the reduction of a ketone by lithium aluminium hydride, but not to the oxidation of lithium aluminium hydride by a ketone.
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For example, it is usual to refer to the reduction of a ketone by lithium aluminium hydride, but not to the oxidation of lithium aluminium hydride by a ketone.
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Lithium hydride is used in the production of a variety of reagents for organic synthesis, such as lithium aluminium hydride ( LiAlH 4 ) and lithium borohydride ( LiBH 4 ).
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Inorganic compounds are synthesized for use as catalysts such as vanadium ( V ) oxide and titanium ( III ) chloride, or as reagents in organic chemistry such as lithium aluminium hydride.
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Although less common than the related sodium borohydride, the lithium salt offers some advantages, being a stronger reducing agent and highly soluble in ethers, whilst remaining safer to handle than lithium aluminium hydride.
