It serves as an aprotic solvent for alkali metals, the sodium solution is a strong reducing agent.
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Applications
It serves as an aprotic “solvent” for alkali metals, the sodium solution is a strong reducing agent.
Solubility
Fully miscible in water.
Notes
Light & Air Sensitive & Hygroscopic. Store under inert gas. Keep in a tightly closed container.
RUO – Research Use Only
General References:
- Dr. Xiaoguang Yang.; Dr. Carolyn B.; Knobler and Prof. Dr. M. Frederick Hawthorne. [12]Mercuracarborand-4, the First Representative of a New Class of Rigid Macrocyclic Electrophiles: The Chloride Ion Complex of a Charge-Reversed Analogue of [12]Crown-4.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.1991,30(11), 1507-1508.
- R.M. Izatt.; R.E. Terry.; L.D. Hansen.; A.G. Avondet.; J.S. Bradshaw.; N.K. Dalley.; T.E. Jensen.; J.J. Christensen.; B.L. Haymore. A calorimetric titration study of uni-and bivalent metal ion interaction with several thia derivatives of 9-crown-3, 12-crown-4, 15-crown-5, 18-crown-6, 24-crown-8, and with several oxathiapentadecanes in water or water-methanol solvents at 25°C.Inorg. Chim. Acta1978,301-8.
- Crown ether suited to complexing lithium ions.