Sodium borohydride (NaBH4)

Inactivation of Tetracycline with Sodium Borohydride.

Recently we reported on the rapid inactivation of tetracycline by use of cupric-morpholine complex (Kaplan, Lannon, and Buckwalter, J. Pharm. Sci., 64, 163, 1965). This degradation procedure is used as part of an assay technique for kanamycin in the presence of tetracycline. We have since found that sodium borohydride (Metal Hydrides Inc., Beverly, Mass.) can substitute for cupric-morpholine co...

The reduction of cozymase by sodium borohydride.

Cozymase (diphosphopyridine nucleotide, DPN) has been assayed by a variety of biochemical and chemical methods (1). Among the simplest procedures has been the determination of the light absorption of reduced DPN at 340 rnp after reduction by sodium hydrosulfite. Since special precautions are required to remove completely the excess reducing agent which absorbs in this region, it appeared advant...

Bursting Dynamics in Molecular Hydrogen Generation via Sodium Borohydride Hydrolysis

The hydrolysis of borohydride salts is a promising process for the generation in situ of pure molecular hydrogen that can be used as an alternative fuel. One of the obstacles toward its concrete application in the realm of green energy resides in nonlinear behaviors of H2 delivery during the reaction development. In particular, we have recently shown that this system behaves like a chemical osc...

Quinine/Sodium Borohydride Complexes as Chiral Reductive Catalysts

The Electroanalytical Determination of Sodium Borohydride Using a Gold Electrode

Sodium borohydride or sodium tetrahydroborate is used as a reducing agent in many organic and inorganic reactions. Therefore, the determination of sodium borohydride present in the system is of great importance. Borohydride releases hydrogen under appropriated conditions in the presence of a suitable catalyst. Since the amount of hydrogen emitted is proportional to the amount of borohydride, th...