Lithium aluminium hydride tetrahydridoaluminate

LiAlH4, lithium tetrahydridoaluminate ("lithium aluminium hydride . so-called) is an excellent reducing agent in ether solution for both organic and inorganic compounds it may be used to prepare covalent hydrides SiH ether, for example... 

Reactant lithium aluminium hydride (lithium tetrahydridoaluminate(lll))... 

In 1956 Herbert C. Brown (b. 1912) discovered that in ethereal solution diborane (B2H5) dissociates into borane (BH3), which can add to an alkene. The organoborane formed can be converted to an alcohol by treatment with hydrogen peroxide, and the overall result of this hydroboration reaction is the anti-Markovnikoff addition to the double bond. Brown was also responsible for the introduction into organic chemistry of the reducing agents sodium borohydride (sodium tetrahydridoborate(lll)) and lithium aluminium hydride (lithium tetrahydridoaluminate(lll)). 

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