Sodium borohydride CAS 16940-66-2

Sodium borohydride >98% CAS 16940-66-2

Sodium borohydride is a versatile reducing agent employed in a variety of synthetic applications. Conventionally used for the reduction of aldehydes and ketones it can also be used for imines, nitrostyrenes, nitropropenes and some olefins with the appropriate metal catalyst. The hydride is higly hygroscopic and unstable when wet, it must be stored away from light and moisture, it rapidly decomposes when in contact with acids.

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