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Sigma Aldrich Potassium Hydride

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MilliporeSigma Sigma Organics products encompass a wide range of quality reagents, solvents, catalysts, and building blocks for organic synthesis. From benchtop discovery to process development and scale-up, Sigma Organics solutions are built to meet the needs of synthetic chemists.

Potassium hydride is a strong base and hydride donor to Lewis acids. It is generally employed in organic reactions like deprotonation, rearrangement, and elimination reactions. It is also used as a reducing agent to reduce hindered boranes and borates to substituted borohydrides.Potassium hydride in paraffin can be used as a base in:Wittig reaction of various aldehydes with high Z selectivity.Williamson ether synthesis to prepare substituted ethers from alcohols.Polymerization of ethylene oxide to yield polyethylene glycols.

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CAS 7693-26-7
Molecular Formula HK
Linear Formula KH
Quantity 5 g
MDL Number MFCD00011357
Molecular Weight (g/mol) 40.11 g/mol
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