The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Exceptionally facile reduction of acid chlorides to aldehydes by sodium tri-tert-butoxyaluminohydride

JS Cha, HC Brown

Index: Cha, Jin Soon; Brown, Herbert C. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1993 , vol. 58, # 17 p. 4732 - 4734

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Abstract

The conversion of acid chlorides to aldehydes is one of the most useful synthetic transformations in organic synthesis. Many useful reducing methods have been reported for such conversions, 1 eg., a catalytic hydrogenation, 2 lithium tri-tert-butoxyaluminohydride