Mechanism of sodium dithionite reduction of aldehydes and ketones

SK Chung

Index: Chung, Sung-Kee Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1981 , vol. 46, # 26 p. 5457 - 5458

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Abstract

Sir: Sodium dithionite is a readily available, inexpensive reducing agent which is capable of reducing a variety of functional groups, eg, nitro,' nitroso,l diazonium salts,2 various pyridinium salts: imine^,^ oximes: aldehydes and ketones,6 and a-halo ketones.6 The reducing power of