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60080

Potassium borohydride

purum, ≥97.0% (RT)

Synonym(s):

Potassium tetrahydroborate

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Linear Formula:
KBH4
CAS Number:
13762-51-1
Molecular Weight:
53.94
NACRES:
NA.22
PubChem Substance ID:
329758750
UNSPSC Code:
12352000
EC Number:
237-360-5
MDL number:
MFCD00011396

Product Name

Potassium borohydride, purum, ≥97.0% (RT)

InChI key

ICRGAIPBTSPUEX-UHFFFAOYSA-N

InChI

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

SMILES string

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

grade

purum

assay

≥97.0% (RT)

reaction suitability

reagent type: reductant

mp

500 °C (dec.) (lit.)

density

1.18 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

Quality Level

100

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Application

Potassium borohydride can be used:
  • As a reducing agent and boron source in organic synthesis.
  • As a reducing agent in the preparation of copper nanoparticles.
  • To reduce toxic 2-nitroaniline to less toxic o-phenylenediamine using different catalytic systems.

Reactant commonly used as a reducing agent and as a boron source

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Hazard Classifications

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

Storage Class

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

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flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

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STBH3230

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Preparation of copper nanoparticles by chemical reduction method using potassium borohydride
Zhang Q, et al.
Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 20, s240-s244 (2010)
Reduction of nitroarenes to azoxybenzenes by potassium borohydride in water
Liu Y, et al.
Molecules (Basel), 16(5), 3563-3568 (2011)
Min Hu et al.
Nanoscale research letters, 12(1), 435-435 (2017-07-05)
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Low-temperature solid state synthesis and in situ phase transformation to prepare nearly pure cBN
Lian G, et al.
Dalton Transactions, 40(26), 6961-6967 (2011)
Catalytic reduction of 2-nitroaniline: a review
Naseem K, et al.
Environmental Science and Pollution Research International, 24(7), 6446-6460 (2017)
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