s-Butyllithium

Other Names:

sec-Butyllithium

s-BuLi

sec-BuLi

Lithium-2-butanide

Butan-2-yllithium

General Information:

Structure:

CAS Number: 598-30-1

Molecular Weight: 64.06 g/mol

s-Butyllithium (s-BuLi) is a strong base that is useful for deprotonating weak carbon acids, especially when weaker organolithium bases such as n-BuLi don't work well.

References:

1) Wikipedia: sec-Butyllithium (link)

2) www.sigmaaldrich.com: sec-Butyllithium solution (link)

3) Reich, H. J.; Rigby, J. H.; Handbook of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, Acidic and Basic Reagents