Uses
It is used to replace more dangerous reducing agents – either in its original form, as a convenient, more efficient, safer and cheaper reagent for functional group reduction, or as a customised development for a customer’s reduction.
Synhydrid is probably best known for a number of classic transformations, and for its ability to replace the more reactive and hazardous Lithium Aluminium Hydride (LAH).
Although Synhydrid is represented as a single substance, it is actually a consistent thermodynamic-equilibrium mixture.