Historical Development of Lightweight Metal Hydrides and Hydride Complexes

7 Historical Development of Lightweight Metal Hydrides and Hydride Complexes 

Formation of magnesium and calcium hydride compounds was first recognized by German chemists yet at the end of nineteenth century [95] but it took more than a half a century before a substantial yield of Mg hydride was obtained from direct 

The next alkali earth in the periodic table is Ca and its ternary hydride was found to be less stable than the Mg ternary hydride. Indeed, the desired reaction for CaNij is  

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