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438472

Potassium borohydride

99.9% trace metals basis

Synonym(s):

Potassium tetrahydroborate

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Linear Formula:
KBH4
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
53.94
NACRES:
NA.23
PubChem Substance ID:
UNSPSC Code:
12352302
EC Number:
237-360-5
MDL number:
Assay:
99.9% trace metals basis
Form:
powder
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assay

99.9% trace metals basis

form

powder

reaction suitability

core: potassium, reagent type: reductant

impurities

≤1% Na

mp

500 °C (dec.) (lit.)

density

1.18 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

SMILES string

[K+].[H][B-]([H])([H])[H]

InChI

1S/BH4.K/h1H4;/q-1;+1

InChI key

ICRGAIPBTSPUEX-UHFFFAOYSA-N



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signalword

Danger

Storage Class

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

wgk

nwg

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 3 Oral - Eye Dam. 1 - Repr. 1B - Skin Corr. 1B - Water-react. 1



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Jesus R Medina et al.
The Journal of organic chemistry, 68(12), 4631-4642 (2003-06-07)
Representative organoborane mixtures were quantitatively converted to their borohydrides through their reaction with activated KH (KH), permitting their detailed analysis by (11)B NMR. Through the treatment of commercial KH with a THF solution of lithium aluminum hydride (LAH), a dramatic
Zhenli Zhu et al.
Analytica chimica acta, 607(2), 136-141 (2008-01-15)
A new atomizer based on atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma was specially designed for atomic fluorescence spectrometry (AFS) in order to be applied to the measurement of arsenic. The characteristics of the DBD atomizer and the effects of
A P Seddon et al.
The Journal of biological chemistry, 261(25), 11538-11543 (1986-09-05)
Bacterial 5-oxoprolinase is composed of two protein components: Component A, which catalyzes 5-oxoproline-dependent ATP-hydrolysis and Component B, which couples the hydrolysis of ATP with the decyclization of 5-oxoproline to form glutamate (Seddon, A. P., Li, L., and Meister, A. (1984)