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Quote - “Lithium hydroxide is produced in a metathesis reaction between lithium carbonate and calcium hydroxide:[5]
Li2CO3 + Ca(OH)2 → 2 LiOH + CaCO3
The initially produced hydrate is dehydrated by heating under vacuum up to 180 °C.
In the laboratory, lithium hydroxide arises by the action of water on lithium or lithium oxide.
The equations for these processes follow:
2 Li + 2 H2O → 2 LiOH + H2
Li2O + H2O → 2 LiOH
Typically, these reactions are avoided.
Although lithium carbonate is more widely used, the hydroxide is an effective precursor to lithium salts, e.g.
LiOH + HF → LiF + H2O.
Gas phase chemistry
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The acidity of LiOH has been measured in the gas phase. The oxidolithium anion, LiO–, was produced by successive decarboxylation and decarbonylation of monolithium oxalate anion, LiO(C=O)(C=O)O–, by collision-induced dissociation and was identified by its exact mass. The gas-phase acidity of LiOH was inferred from the experimentally determined electron affinity of LiO• and previously known heats of formation to give a value of 426 ± 2 kcal/mol. This is considerably higher than the gas-phase acidity of water (390 kcal/mol) and even exceeds that of methane (417 kcal/mol). Thus, LiOH is a very weak acid and is in fact the weakest acid yet measured in the gas phase.[6]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_hydroxide
