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Title: preparation of sodium borohydride
Post by: gsus on August 24, 2004, 08:42:00 AM
these two articles are part of a series of boron hydride papers in vol. 75 of JACS. the usual, but with some nice details not found elsewhere on this site, except perhaps in the

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patents.

The Preparation of Sodium Borohydride by the High Temperature Reaction of Sodium Hydride with Borate Esters
H.I. Schlesinger, Herbert C. Brown, and A.E. Finholt
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 75, 205-209 (1953)

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Procedures for the Preparation of Methyl Borate
H.I. Schlesinger, Herbert C. Brown, Darwin L. Mayfield, and James R. Gilbreath
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 75, 213-215 (1953)

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Title: preparation of divided Na and NaH for NaBH4
Post by: gsus on August 26, 2004, 06:16:00 AM
...and apparatus for producing same. relevant to the above if you don't have anything else to do.

Sodium Dispersions, pp. 6-10
and Sodium Hydride, pp. 10-13
of Inorganic Syntheses Vol. 5.

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