Caesium amide

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Magyari-Kope, V. Ozolins and C. Wolverton, Phys. Rev. B Condens. Matter, 2006, 73, 220101. 

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Caesium amide is extremely pyrophoric and must be handled in an atmosphere... 

Reactions of amines with alkenes have been reviewed298,299. Alkali metal amides are active homogeneous catalysts for the amination of olefins. Thus diethylamine and ethylene yield triethylamine when heated at 70-90 °C at 6-10 atm in the presence of lithium diethylamide and /V./V./V. /V -tetrarncthylcthylcncdiaminc. Solutions of caesium amide promote the addition of ammonia to ethylene at 100 °C and 110 atm to give mixtures of mono-, di- and triethylamines300. The iridium(I)-catalysed addition of aniline to norbomene affords the anilinonorbomane 274301. Treatment of norbomene with aniline... 

Several of the inorganic bases have been involved in various laboratory or industrial scale incidents, individual entries being t Ammonia, 4497 Ammonium hydroxide, 4544 Barium hydroxide, 0208 Caesium amide, 4260 Calcium carbonate, 0317 Calcium hydroxide, 3928 Calcium oxide, 3937 Lead carbonate-lead hydroxide, 0726 Lithium carbonate, 0533 Magnesiiun carbonate hydroxide, 0534 Magnesiiun oxide, 4695 Potassiiun carbonate, 0531 Potassimn hydroxide, 4428 Sodimn carbonate, 0552 Sodium hydroxide, 4445 Sodimn oxide, 4802... 

T. Saue, K. Faegri, T. Helgaker, O. Gropen. Principles of direct 4-component relativistic SCF application to caesium amide. 

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