The Journal of Organic Chemistry

The species prepared from sodium borohydride and N, N-dimethylformamide reduces or dimethylaminates organic halides

Y Liu, J Schwartz

Index: Liu, Yumin; Schwartz, Jeffrey Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1993 , vol. 58, # 18 p. 5005 - 5007

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Abstract

The danger of mixing sodium borohydride and DMF at elevated temperature is well known. 13 Following an induction period, rapid evolution of a flammable gas can result, identified as trimeth~ lamine.~ It has been sug-gested3 that adventitious acid present in DMF could