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Novel and facile reduction of phenol derivatives with samarium diiodide-base system

Y Kamochi, T Kudo

Index: Kamochi, Yasuko; Kudo, Tadahiro Tetrahedron Letters, 1994 , vol. 35, # 24 p. 4169 - 4172

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Abstract

Abstract Phenol was rapidly reduced with samarium diiodide-base system in the presence of protic solvent at room temperature to afford 3-cyclohexen-1-ol accompanied by cyclohexanol. The similar reduction of 4-methoxyphenol and 2-naphthol gave 4- ...