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VenPure® SF

powder

Synonym(s):

Sodium borohydride, Sodium tetrahydridoborate

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Linear Formula:
NaBH4
CAS Number:
16940-66-2
Molecular Weight:
37.83
NACRES:
NA.22
PubChem Substance ID:
24882317
UNSPSC Code:
26111700
EC Number:
241-004-4
MDL number:
MFCD00003518
Form:
powder

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InChI

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

InChI key

YOQDYZUWIQVZSF-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES string

[BH4-].[Na+]

form

powder

reaction suitability

reagent type: reductant

mp

>300 °C (dec.) (lit.)

Quality Level

200

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Application

VenPure® SF (Sodium borohydride powder) is a mild reducing agent used in the reduction of aldehydes and ketones to their corresponding alcohols. It is generally inert to other functional groups such as epoxides, esters, nitriles and lactones. Along with carboxylic acid, it forms acyloxyborohydride, which is a versatile reducing agent to reduce indoles, quinolones, imines, enamines, oximes and enamides.

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VenPure is a registered trademark of Ascensus Specialties LLC

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Danger

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 3 Oral - Eye Dam. 1 - Repr. 1B - 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 2

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

Eyeshields, Faceshields, Gloves, type P3 (EN 143) respirator cartridges

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SDBB5291
SDBB3203
STBL3814
STBK8512
STBK2596

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Sodium borohydride.
Banfi L, et al.
e-EROS Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis., 1-13 (2014)
Sodium borohydride in carboxylic acid media: a phenomenal reduction system.
Gribble G W
Chemical Society Reviews, 27(6), 395-404 (1998)
Forty years of hydride reductions.
Brown H C and Krishnamurthy S
Tetrahedron, 35(5), 567-607 (1979)
Meganne L Christian et al.
ACS nano, 6(9), 7739-7751 (2012-08-10)
Owing to its high storage capacity (10.8 mass %), sodium borohydride (NaBH(4)) is a promising hydrogen storage material. However, the temperature for hydrogen release is high (>500 °C), and reversibility of the release is unachievable under reasonable conditions. Herein, we
Qinghua Cui et al.
Analytica chimica acta, 724, 86-91 (2012-04-10)
Silver nanoclusters (Ag NCs) templated with DNAs have attracted much attention as novel fluorophores because of their convenient emission tunability by the sequence and length of the template DNAs. However, the precise production of Ag NCs in a site-specific manner
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