What is "borohydride"

n. (context inorganic chemistry English) an anion, BH₄^-, and any corresponding salt such as sodium borohydride; a very strong reducing agent

Borohydride refers to the anion B H and its salts. Borohydride is also the term used for compounds containing BHX, for example cyanoborohydride (B(CN)H) and triethylborohydride (B(CH)H). Such compounds find wide use as reducing agents in organic synthesis. The most important borohydrides are lithium borohydride and sodium borohydride, but other salts are well known (see Table). Tetrahydroborates are also of academic and industrial interest in inorganic chemistry.