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Lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide solution

1 M in toluene

Synonym(s):

LiHMDS, Hexamethyldisilazane lithium salt

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Linear Formula:
[(CH3)3Si]2NLi
CAS Number:
4039-32-1
Molecular Weight:
167.33
UNSPSC Code:
12352111
NACRES:
NA.22
PubChem Substance ID:
24880899
MDL number:
MFCD00008261
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
3567910
Concentration:
1 M in toluene
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Quality Level

200

concentration

1 M in toluene

density

0.860 g/mL at 25 °C

SMILES string

[Li]N([Si](C)(C)C)[Si](C)(C)C

InChI

1S/C6H18NSi2.Li/c1-8(2,3)7-9(4,5)6;/h1-6H3;/q-1;+1

InChI key

YNESATAKKCNGOF-UHFFFAOYSA-N

General description

Lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide solution (LiHMDS) is generally used in organic synthesis as a non-nucleophilic strong Bronsted base.

Application

LiHMDS can be used as a reagent:
  • In the deprotonation and nucleophilic difluoromethylation reactions.
  • To synthesize isoquinoline derivatives by the addition of N-iodosuccinimide (NIS) to the α-benzyl tosylmethyl isocyanides.
  • To prepare arylboronic acid pinacol esters by the reaction of aryl fluorides with bis(pinacolato)diboron via palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction.

Lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide is generally used in organic synthesis as a non-nucleophilic strong Brønsted base. It can be used for salt metathesis reaction for the synthesis of cesium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide (CsHMDS) and lithium fluoride by reacting with cesium fluoride.

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Danger

Hazard Classifications

Aquatic Chronic 3 - Asp. Tox. 1 - Eye Dam. 1 - Flam. Liq. 2 - Repr. 2 - Self-heat. 1 - Skin Corr. 1B - STOT RE 2 - STOT SE 3

target_organs

Central nervous system

supp_hazards

EUH014

Storage Class

4.2 - Pyrophoric and self-heating hazardous materials

wgk

WGK 3

flash_point_f

48.0 °F - closed cup

flash_point_c

8.9 °C - closed cup

ppe

Faceshields, Gloves, Goggles, type ABEK (EN14387) respirator filter

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108-88-3

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Lot/Batch Number
11009DJ
04609MH
14928HH
13820DH
00107TE

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Structural Studies of Cesium, Lithium/Cesium, and Sodium/Cesium Bis (trimethylsilyl) amide (HMDS) Complexes
Ojeda-Amador AI, et al.
Inorganic Chemistry, 55(11), 5719-5728 (2016)
Lithium and potassium bis (trimethylsilyl) amide: Utilizing non-nucleophilic bases as nitrogen sources
Bruning J, et al.
Tetrahedron Letters, 38(18), 3187-3188 (1997)
Nan Li et al.
Lab on a chip, 8(12), 2105-2112 (2008-11-22)
High-density live cell array serves as a valuable tool for the development of high-throughput immunophenotyping systems and cell-based biosensors. In this paper, we have, for the first time, demonstrated a simple fabrication process to form the hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS) and poly(ethylene
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577928-100ML04061837674150
577928-800ML04061837674167