Convenient reduction of carbonyl compounds to their corresponding alcohols with NaBH4/(NH4) 2C2O4 system

D Setamdideh, S Ghahremani

Index: Setamdideh, Davood; Ghahremani, Sahar South African Journal of Chemistry, 2012 , vol. 65, p. 91 - 97

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Sodium borohydride (0.4-1.5 equivalents) in the presence of ammonium oxalate (0.2 equivalents) reduces varieties of organic carbonyl compounds such as aldehydes, ketones, acyloins, a-diketones and α, β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds to their corresponding alcohols. Reduction reactions were carried out in acetonitrile in high to excellent yields of products. The chemoselective reduction of aldehydes over ketones was ...