Sodium aluminium hydride

Sodium aluminium hydride (NaAIH4) Rapid Ignites, may explode... 

Reduction of the amide (123 R1 = R2 = OMe) with sodium aluminium hydride gave a mixture of the bases (125 R1 = R2 = OMe), (127), and (130),165 and the last of these lost carbon monoxide when heated with tris(tri-phenylphosphine)rhodium chloride in benzene to give the dimethyl ketal of 14/3-methylcodeinone, which could be hydrolysed to 14j8-methylcodeinone, the 7,8-dihydro-derivative of which proved to be identical with material previously prepared by a different route (see Volume 9, p. 116). The corresponding morphinone and dihydromorphinone have been prepared.164... 

METAL-DOPED SODIUM ALUMINIUM HYDRIDE AS A REVERSIBLE HYDROGEN STORAGE MATERIAL... 

Bogdanovic, B., Brand, R., Marjanovic, A., Schwickardi, M., Tolle, J. (2000). Metal-doped sodium aluminium hydrides as potential new hydrogen storage materials. /. Alloys Compounds 302,36-58. 

The reduction of the maleic anhydride adduct (303) with lithium aluminium hydride was previously reported to occur selectively to give the lactone (304). The lower selectivity now observed with sodium aluminium hydride (none at all with sodium borohydride) is interpreted as evidence for a complex (305) of the ester and anhydride carbonyl groups with a solvated lithium ion when lithium aluminium hydride is used, leading to selective reduction of the free carbonyl group.Sodium ions are considered not to form so stable a complex. 

Hydrocarbons Calcium chloride Calcium hydride Sodium (metal) Phosphorus pentoxide Lithium or sodium aluminium hydride... 

Low-valent niobium, formed by the mixing of niobium pentachloride and sodium aluminium hydride, reductively couples ketones to give olefins in high... 

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