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A simple reduction of methyl aromatic esters to alcohols using sodium borohydride–methanol system

N Boechat, JCS da Costa, J de Souza Mendonça…

Index: Boechat, Nubia; Santos Da Costa, Jorge Carlos; De Souza Mendonca, Jorge; Mello De Oliveira, Pedro Santos; Nora De Souza, Marcus Vinicius Tetrahedron Letters, 2004 , vol. 45, # 31 p. 6021 - 6022

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Download PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... Several aromatic esters were reduced to the corresponding alcohol by using sodium borohydride–methanol system. The reduction was completed within 2.0–4.0 h after refluxing in THF. The alcohol products were isolated after aqueous workup in good yields (88–97%). ... Several aromatic esters ...

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