Exceptionally facile reduction of acyclic and alicyclic carboxylic acids to aldehydes by thexylchloroborane-dimethyl sulfide

HC Brown, JS Cha, B Nazer…

Index: Journal of the American Chemical Society, , vol. 106, # 25 p. 8001 - 8002

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Abstract

... hydride", as well ab the reduction of acylaziridines by lithium aluminum hydride.I0 Finally, the reduction of carboxylic acid by thexylborane, referred to above, had been explored.6b But a really clean reduction had escaped us. ... 0 1984 American Chemical Society Page 2. ... Vol. ...