:Talk:Sodium methoxide

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)

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)

{{Discussion top|result=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)

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