Concerns over global warming and pollution have stimulated research in hydrogen and its potential uses as an energy carrier. Lithium aluminum hydride, a reducing agent commonly used in organic ...

What element can melt in your hand? What products are formed by the reaction between a solution of lithium hydride and aluminum chloride? And what is the Hall process? If you can answer those ...

CARBOHYDRATE acids generally can be converted into the corresponding aldoses by amalgam reduction of a lactone. In cases where lactonization does not really occur or where lactones are unstable, few ...

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