Tetrahedron letters

Alane—A novel way to reduce phosphine oxides

S Griffin, L Heath, P Wyatt

Index: Griffin, Sara; Heath, Lucy; Wyatt, Paul Tetrahedron Letters, 1998 , vol. 39, # 24 p. 4405 - 4406

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Abstract

Abstract: Phosphine oxides may be reduced to phosphines in excellent yield using alane - - AIH3. An aqueous workup is not required. © 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. ... The reduction of phosphine oxides to phosphines is an important reaction in organic chemistry and there are several methods available. Many of these methods have drawbacks of one kind or another. Any research worker who has reduced a phosphine oxide to a phosphine will ...