As a strong base, lithium tert-butoxide is easily protonated.
Lithium tert-butoxide is used to prepare other tert-butoxide compounds such as copper(I) t-butoxide and hexa(tert-butoxy)dimolybdenum(III):
:2 MoCl(thf)  +  6 LiOBu-t  →  Mo(OBu-t)  +  6 LiCl  +  6 thf