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Lithium imide is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula . This white solid can be formed by a reaction between lithium amide and lithium hydride.
The product is light-sensitive and can undergo disproportionation to lithium amide and characteristically red lithium nitride.
Lithium imide is thought to have a simple face-centered cubic structure with a Fm m space group; with N-H bond distances of 0.82(6) Angstrom and a H–N–H bond angle of 109.5°, giving it a similar structure to lithium amide.
Lithium imide is strongly basic and deprotonates even some extremely such as methane and ammonia, due to the very localized negative charge on the nitrogen, which carries two . It has uses in organic and organometallic chemistry. It has been investigated as a material for hydrogen storage.
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