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Mechanism of acid-catalysed reduction of aromatic aldehydes and p-benzoquinone derivatives by an nadh model compound

S Fukuzumi, M Ishikawa, T Tanaka

Index: Fukuzumi, Shunichi; Ishikawa, Masashi; Tanaka, Toshio Tetrahedron, 1986 , vol. 42, # 4 p. 1021 - 1034

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Abstract

A series of aromatic aldehydes have successfully been reduced by N-methylacridan AcH2 in the presence of perchloric acid (HClO4) in a mixture of acetonitrile and acetic acid (MeCN/MeCOOH, 4: 1 vv) at 323 K. The effects of HClO4 as well as Mg (ClO4) 2 on hydride- transfer reactions from AcH2 to a series of p-benzoquinone derivatives (Q) in MeCN have also been examined. Perchloric acid shows both accelerating and retarding effects on the ...