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As the helium is negative, maybe it should be named Litium Helide, but same, I can't find anything on the web, because in all materials it is named just as LiHe.--DJ EV (talk) 12:14, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for creating the redirect. Did you do a google search? No one has seriously used that name for this molecule, so by our naming convention we should not be either. LiHe is OK for the title as that is what the experts have been calling it. The molecule is only bound with London forces and has no detectable ionic character. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:45, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The IUPAC has systematic names available for most compounds, regardless of status. I would suggest just following the IUPAC systematic nomenclature if there is no other name attested; it is more encyclopedic and less technical than using a symbolic name. Nicole Sharp (talk) 04:38, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
There is at least one citation here on Wikipedia: the article "helium compounds" lists lithium helide as a metal helide, along with sodium helide, potassium helide, and rubidium helide (referring to their molecular cations). Nicole Sharp (talk) 04:59, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I wrote that helium compounds, and it does not say "lithium helide"! The section headed "Metals" is talking about cations, rather than neutral molecules such as the topic of this article. Not only that I erroneously wrote "heliide." (I am now going to fix this). Different researchers use different techniques to make these molecules. Those that make ions using high strength electric fields like to call them helides, but the neutral molecule people tend to use the formula only. In the olden days when people thought they were making solid compounds, they were called helides. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:36, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
