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Reactivity Documentation

Metal Hydrides, Metal Alkyls, Metal Aryls, and Silanes

mixed with

Nitro, Nitroso, Nitrate, and Nitrite Compounds, Organic

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Reactivity Predictions (for each pair of reactive groups)

Nitro, Nitroso, Nitrate, and Nitrite Compounds, Organic mixed with
Metal Hydrides, Metal Alkyls, Metal Aryls, and Silanes

Hazard Predictions

Nitromethane reacts explosively with LiAlH4 (Nystrom, R.F. et al. 1948. Journal of the American Chemical Society 70:3739; Lewis, R.J., Sr. 1992. Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials, 8th Edition. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. pp. 2544).

Nitromethane may produce explosive salts with NaH (Pearson, A.J. et al. 1980. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 202:178).

Nitromethane ignites on contact with many alkyl metal halides, especially those of aluminum and zinc (Traverse, G. 1957. U.S. Patent 2 775 863).

Aliphatic nitro compounds can be reduced to amines with lithium aluminum hydride (Cartolano, A. R. and Vedage, G. A. 2004. Amines by Reduction. Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. (Online)).

Diethylzinc reacts violently with nitro compounds (Leleu, J., Cahiers de Notes Documentaires, 1977, (88), 371).

Potential Gas Byproducts