The Journal of organic chemistry

The Stereoselective Reductions of Ketones to the Most Thermodynamically Stable Alcohols Using Lithium and Hydrated Salts of Common Transition Metals

N Kennedy, T Cohen

Index: Cha, Jin Soon; Yoon, Mal Sook; Kim, Young Shick; Lee, Kwang Woo Tetrahedron Letters, 1988 , vol. 29, # 9 p. 1069 - 1070

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Abstract

... Volume: Page: ... In a publication that will soon appear in The Journal of Organic Chemistry, we reveal that the reductive lithiation of alkyl phenyl ... in liquid ammonia afforded only the trans isomer, although in a much lower yield (57%).(12) More recently, Cha and co ...