N. Paddock
Jun 30, 1951
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Abstract
SINCE the discovery of lithium aluminium hydride1, it has been used for a variety of reductions2. Its reactions are normally those of hydride anions, and in the type of compound with which it reacts there is a far-reaching analogy with the Grignard reagent. The mechanism of the reaction has been investigated by Trevoy and Brown3, who concluded from a wide range of evidence that the rate-determining step is a bimolecular nucleophilic substitution by a hydride ion, possibly complex.