It is sometimes written in the chemical literature as sodium t-butoxide.

It is similar in reactivity to the more common potassium tert-butoxide.

The compound can be produced by treating tert-butyl alcohol with sodium hydride.

[3] One application for sodium tert-butoxide is as a non-nucleophilic base.

For example hexa(tert-butoxy)ditungsten(III) is thus obtained by the salt metathesis reaction from a ditungsten heptachloride:[5] Sodium tert-butoxide forms clusters in the solid state, both hexamers[6] and nonamers.