“…The commercial importance of sodium borohydride reached its first peak in the fifties in U.S. military research programs [4,5]. Recently borohydride reduction of metal ions is the basis of several commercial processes including: (1) the preparation of selective catalysts, magnetic materials [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24], (2) the recovery of precious metals (silver, gold, platinum and palladium group metals) [6,[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35], (3) the removal and recovery of heavy metals (mercury, lead, copper, nickel, cobalt and silver) from aqueous discharge streams [36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47], and (4) the electroless plating of nickel, cobalt, copper, silver and gold o...…”