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, bromine and chlorinated in descending order.
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Name
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Lithium Aluminum Hydride
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Active hydrogen content%
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≥97.8%
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Appearance
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White powder
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CAS
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16853-85-3
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Application
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An important reducing agent in organic synthesis, especially for the reduction of esters, carboxylic acids, and amides.
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