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Potassium hydride

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30 wt % dispersion in mineral oil

Synonym(s):

Potassium monohydride

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Linear Formula:
KH
CAS Number:
7693-26-7
Molecular Weight:
40.11
NACRES:
NA.22
PubChem Substance ID:
24852917
UNSPSC Code:
12352302
EC Number:
231-704-8
MDL number:
MFCD00011357

Product Name

Potassium hydride, 30 wt % dispersion in mineral oil

InChI key

NTTOTNSKUYCDAV-UHFFFAOYSA-N

InChI

1S/K.H

SMILES string

[K]

form

slurry

reaction suitability

reagent type: reductant

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30 wt % dispersion in mineral oil

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Quality Level

200

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Application

Potassium hydride can be used for following applications:
  • Deprotonation: As a strong base, potassium hydride effectively deprotonates hydroxyl groups of monomers, generating alkoxide ions. These ions facilitate the ring-opening polymerization of monosubstituted oxiranes.
  • Strong Base in Williamson Ether Synthesis: It is employed to generate alkoxides from alcohols, which subsequently react with alkyl halides to form ethers.
  • Reducing Agent: Potassium hydride can reduce hindered boranes and borates to trialkyl borohydrides. It also facilitates the reduction of ketones and alkyl halides.
  • Alkylation and Enolate Formation: It aids in the formation of enolates from ketones, which can be utilized in one-pot alkylation-cyclization reactions.

pictograms

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GHS02,GHS05

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Danger

hcodes

H260,H314

Hazard Classifications

Eye Dam. 1 - Skin Corr. 1B - Water-react 1

supp_hazards

EUH014

Storage Class

4.3 - Hazardous materials which set free flammable gases upon contact with water

wgk

WGK 3

flash_point_f

No data available

flash_point_c

No data available

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Faceshields, Gloves, Goggles, type ABEK (EN14387) respirator filter

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The European journal of neuroscience, 39(11), 1720-1728 (2014-01-11)
Calcium imaging of individual neurons is widely used for monitoring their activity in vitro and in vivo. Synthetic fluorescent calcium indicator dyes are commonly used, but the resulting calcium signals sometimes suffer from a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Therefore, it
David K Packham et al.
The New England journal of medicine, 372(3), 222-231 (2014-11-22)
Hyperkalemia (serum potassium level, >5.0 mmol per liter) is associated with increased mortality among patients with heart failure, chronic kidney disease, or diabetes. We investigated whether sodium zirconium cyclosilicate (ZS-9), a novel selective cation exchanger, could lower serum potassium levels
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