11 Facts About Copper hydride

Copper hydride is inorganic compound with the chemical formula CuHn where n ~ 0.

Copper hydride is mainly produced as a reducing agent in organic synthesis and as a precursor to various catalysts.

Copper hydride reduced an aqueous solution of copper sulfate with hypophosphorous acid .

Copper hydride has the distinction of being the first metal hydride discovered.

Solid copper hydride is the irreversible autopolymerisation product of the molecular form, and the molecular form cannot be isolated in concentration.

Phosphine- and NHC-copper hydride species have been developed as reagents in organic synthesis, albeit of limited use.

Molecular copper hydride can be formed by reducing copper iodide with lithium aluminium hydride in ether and pyridine.

The molecular copper hydride is precipitated into amorphous copper hydride with the addition of diethyl ether.

Amorphous copper hydride is converted into the Wurtz phase by annealing, accompanied by some decomposition.

Molecular copper hydride has the distinction of being the first metal hydride to be detected in this way.

In vapour experiments, it was found that copper hydride is produced from the elements upon exposure to 310 nanometre radiation.