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Drilling Fluids & Mud Oil Field chemicals

Potassium Hydride

Product code RXSOL-81-8102-030

It is used to deprotonate certain carbonyl compounds to give enolates. It also deprotonates amines to give the corresponding amides

Description

As a superbase, potassium hydride is more basic than sodium hydride. It is used to deprotonate certain carbonyl compounds to give enolates. It also deprotonates amines to give the corresponding amides of the type KNHR and KNR 2.

 
 
Application
Application

Potassium Hydride is used to deprotonate certain carbonyl compounds to give enolates. It also deprotonates amines to give the corresponding amides. It is also used in cyclization, condensation, rearrangement, elimination and reducing reactions.