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News / Re: DEA To Update Watched Chemicals List To Include Sodium Borohydride
« Last post by atara on February 19, 2024, 06:41:31 AM »Honestly kind of overcomplicated when you can just buy the best precursor to borohydride and react it with alkali hydroxidesNot sure I understand the fuss about nabh4 being watched, the time spent figuring out how to get or make nabh4 could be better spent figuring out how to reduce without it
There was this chinese patent, the NaBH4 was made from Mg metal and some borax sodium carbonate, water in a ball mill: https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=158235
One would have to make a tightly sealed ball mill, that could bee filled with argon though and afterwards wind a way to recrystallise the NaBH4 without hydrolysis. Quite a bit of a hassle and specialised equipment.