Lithium Aluminum Hydride (LiAlH4) CAS 16853-85-3 Purity >97.0%

Lithium Aluminum Hydride (LAH; LiAlH4) (CAS: 16853-85-3) is a promising compound for hydrogen storage, with a high gravimetric and volumetric hydrogen density and a low decomposition temperature. Similar to other metastable hydrides, LiAlH4 does not form by direct hydrogenation at reasonable hydrogen pressures; therefore, there is considerable interest in developing new routes to regenerate the material from the dehydrogenated products LiH and Al.
Lithium Aluminum Hydride is a commonly used reducing reagent in organic chemistry, which can reduce a variety of functional group compounds; it can also act on double bond and triple bond compounds to achieve hydride aluminum reaction;
Lithium Aluminum Hydride can also be used as a base to participate in the reaction. Lithium Aluminum Hydride has a strong hydrogen transfer ability, which can reduce aldehydes, esters, lactones, carboxylic acids, and epoxides to alcohols, or convert amides, imine ions, nitriles and aliphatic nitro compounds into corresponding amines .
In addition, the super reduction ability of Lithium Aluminum Hydride makes it possible to act on other functional groups, such as reducing halogenated alkanes to alkanes. In this type of reaction, the activity of halogenated compounds is iodine, bro-mine and chlorinated in descending order.
Lithium Aluminum Hydride is used as a powerful reducing agent inorganic synthesis. Except for olefinic doublebonds, almost all organic functional groupsare reduced by Lithium Aluminum Hydride (Sullivan and Wade 1980). It is used extensivelyin pharmaceutical synthesis and in catalytichydrogenation.
Used to make other chemicals, as a polymerization catalyst, as a hydrogen source, and as a propellant.
Used as a reducing agent in pharmaceutical, perfume, pesticide, dye and other fine organic synthesis.