[Tito]

Hi,
I need help.
Lithium Aluminum hydride (AKA Lithium Tetrahydroaluminate) is used as a reducing agent in the synthesis of organic chemicals.It is more powerful than the related reagent sodium borohydride.

I know almost nothing about chemistry, I am a sales person and I am trying to find out which type of companies use this type of chemical. If anybody could say something like: companies that make ceramics use LAH for so and so....or companies that make batteries use LAH for so and so.

I will appreciate your help.

Thank you.

[manofohm]

Companies like mine use it to do organic reductions and thats about it.

[Enthalpy]

LiAlH₄ would be one of the very few credible compounds improving performance a little bit over Rp-1 (~kerosene) or solid fuels in rocket engines... IF:
- It could be made SAFE in 100t amounts: no detonation, no easy ignition etc etc
- It could be pumped somehow, for instance as a slurry in kerosene (for liquid engines)
- It were reasonably insensitive to humidity
- It remained stable when polybutadiene polymerizes (for hybrid engines)
 mixed with aluminium perchlorate additionally (for solid engines)
- It were affordable

One path might be to encapsulate fine powder in thin aluminium. This has been tried with AlH₃, but LiAlH₄ looks preferable.

LiBH₄ is too toxic and expensive, probably no option.