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Chemical data
- Formula
- HNa
- Molecular weight
- 23.9977 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- sodium hydride
- SMILES
- [H-].[Na+]
- InChIKey
- BZKBCQXYZZXSCO-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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Encyclopedic overview
Sodium hydride is the chemical compound with the empirical formula NaH. This alkali metal hydride is primarily used as a strong yet combustible base in organic synthesis. NaH is a saline (salt-like) hydride, composed of Na and H ions, in contrast to molecular hydrides such as borane, silane, germane, ammonia, and methane. It is an ionic material that is insoluble in all solvents (other than molten sodium metal), consistent with the fact that H ions do not exist in solution.
Basic properties and structure
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sodium hydride” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.