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Drilling Fluids & Mud Oil Field chemicals
Potassium Hydride
SKU: RXSOL-81-8102-030
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
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.
