Chemoselective reduction of aldehydes with zinc borohydride in tetrahydrofuran

Ranu, Brindaban C. ; Chakraborty, Rupak (1990) Chemoselective reduction of aldehydes with zinc borohydride in tetrahydrofuran Tetrahedron Letters, 31 (52). pp. 7663-7664. ISSN 0040-4039

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Abstract

A variety of structurally different aldehydes undergo chemoselectire reduction over ketones with zinc borohydride in tetrahydrofuran at -10°C to the corresponding alcohols. Selective reduction of aldehydes over ketones has been achieved with zinc borohydride in THF at -10°C.

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