Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Chemical Family
- Chemical Name
- Base Chemicals Functions
- EC No.
- 241-004-4
- Molecular formula
- NaBH₄
- CAS No.
- 16940-66-2
- Product Families
- Synonym
Sodium tetrahydridoborate
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Applicable Processes
- Industrial Additives End Use
- Applications
- Purification of various bulk chemistry products containing reducible admixtures: amines, amides, alcohols, peroxides, metal ions.
- Selective reduction of aldehyde and ketone groups in pharmacy and in fine organic chemistry.
- Waste water treatment at a number of production plants to eliminate even minor quantities of heavy metals.
- Reduction of noble metals including the reduction from spent catalysts.
- Electroless deposition of transition and precious metals on various substrates.
- Water/alkali solution of sodium borohydride are used to bleach mechanical pulp, to leach clay and to reduce dyes in textiles.
- Reductive alkylation of amines in combination with formaldehyde and aromatic amines in combination with H2SO4.
- Selective reduction of nitroarenes to amines in combination with ammonium sulfate in ethanol.
- Reduction acids to alcohols in combination with iodine.
Properties
- Physical Properties
- Typical Properties
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Flash Point | 187.0 | °C | - |
| Solubility in Water (25°C) | 550.0 | g/l | - |
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Molecular Weight | 37.83 | - | - |