Potassium Hydride

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Physical Data: solid; dec on heating; d 1.47 g cma 3; nD 1.453.

Solubility: dec in cold and hot water; insol CS2, ether, benzene.

Form Supplied in: as a dispersion in mineral oil, 20a 35% by weight. A standardization procedure has been published.

Purification: commercial KH dispersion is made by reduction of metallic potassium,2 and so KH is often contaminated with traces of potassium or potassium superoxide. These can be removed by pretreatment with iodine to produce a reagent with superior consistency in several reactions that are sensitive to such impurities.