Talk:Sodium methoxide

Untitled

Can anyone expand on how sodium methoxide manufactured on an industrial scale?

It uses the Brown-Schlesinger process, making sodium methoxide & sodium tetrahydroborate from sodium hydroxide and trimethyl borate. Sadly, those are the only details I know. Wogone (talk) 19:03, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

MSDS

The MSDS link needs to be updated. Since December 2011, "The University of Oxford Department of Chemistry MSDS web resource is no longer being maintained." I don't know who WP give preference to on this as I know some don't like linking to companies (even though they are required by law to give fully accurate information). Any help? Tomásdearg92 (talk) 23:50, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Merge idea

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

To merge methoxide into alkoxide, with which it has greater overlap; by analogy with ethoxide. Klbrain (talk) 16:12, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

---

I propose to merge methoxide into sodium methoxide, which is probably by far the main source of methoxide. --Smokefoot (talk) 01:05, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

But how about other methoxides like potassium methoxide? The article can be merged to any methoxide, so I think we should merge to neither. Nucleus hydro elemon (talk) 03:39, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

That is true. But wouldnt you guess that the vast majority methoxide is used as the sodium deriv? --Smokefoot (talk) 19:46, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Maybe merge to alkoxide just like ethoxide? Nucleus hydro elemon (talk) 03:06, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.