Temperature dependent reaction products are observed when borohydride is present in aqueous solutions containing Ir(3+). At temperatures of 40 °C and above, metallic iridium is formed while under ambient conditions of 25 °C, borohydride results in an alkaline environment that helps in hydrolyzing the precursor to form IrO2. The Ir foams and IrO2 are subsequently used to study their catalytic pr...

In the presence of large excesses of borohydride salts, gold monolayer protected-clusters can be grown to larger sizes simply by controlling the amount of reducing agent added to smaller clusters. In addition, gold monolayer clusters can be used as catalysts for reduction reactions by sodium borohydride; results suggest such catalysts have sterically constrained active sites.

A variety of phosphine oxides and sulfides can be efficiently converted directly to the corresponding phosphine boranes using oxalyl chloride followed by sodium borohydride. Optically active P-stereogenic phosphine oxides can be converted stereospecifically to phosphine boranes with inversion of configuration by treatment with Meerwein's salt followed by sodium borohydride.

In this study we evaluated two different""To-labeling techniques to produce "To-low density lipoprotein (Tc-LDL) suitable for the scintigraphic delineation of experimental atherosclerotic lesions. The two methods are 1) a procedure that uses stamnous chloride and sodium borohydride (borohydride method) and 2) a procedure that uses sodium dithiionite as a reducing agent and that has been success...

Reduction of oxi me fu nctionality to amine is an important synthetic transformation . As ox imes are stable derivatives of carbonyl compounds, subsequent reduction to amines is an attractive two-step procedure for reductive ami nation . Red uction of oximes to amines can be performed by hydride reducing agents or by catalytic hydrogenation.' Among hydride reducing agents, lithium aluminium hyd...

Pd–Co–Au/C catalysts synthesized by the conventional borohydride reduction method and reverse microemulsion method followed by heat treatment at 500–900 C in a reducing atmosphere have been characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, and polarization measurements for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in proton exchange membrane fuels cells. While a single phase Pd–Co–Au ...

A fuel cell operating with aqueous sodium borohydride and hydrogen peroxide streams, with one, two and four cells (electrode area 64, 128 nd 256 cm2) connected in a bipolar mode in a filterpress flow cell is reported. The oxidation of borohydride ion was carried out on Au/C particles upported on a carbon felt electrode while the reduction of hydrogen peroxide was carried out on carbon supported...