Reduction of isoquinoline and pyridine-containing heterocycles with lithium triethylborohydride (Super-Hydride®)

BE Blough, FI Carroll

Index: Blough; Carroll Tetrahedron Letters, 1993 , vol. 34, # 45 p. 7239 - 7242

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Abstract

Abstract Isoquinolines, quinoline and pyridines are effectively reduced to 1, 2, 3, 4- tetrahydroisoquinolines, 1, 2, 3, 4-tetrahydroquinolines and piperidines respectively with lithium triethylborohydride (Super-Hydride®). The mechanism of the reduction was explored