Lithium hydride containing complex reducing agent: A new and simple activation of commercial lithium hydride

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0040-4039(95)01240-I

Commercially available lithium hydride, an essentially inert metal hydride, can be activated as a hydride source by in situ generated lithium alkoxide in the presence of a nickel salt. The obtained new reagent exhibited reducing properties versus alkyl or aryl halides, ketones, ethylenic or sulfurated compounds as well as coupling properties versus aryl halides when prepared in the presence of a ligand.