The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Reduction of benzylic halides with diethylzinc using tetrakis (triphenylphosphine) palladium as catalyst

KA Agrios, M Srebnik

Index: Agrios, Konstantinos A.; Srebnik, Morris Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1993 , vol. 58, # 24 p. 6908 - 6910

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Abstract

Reduction of organic compounds is important synthetically both in the laboratory and in industry.'In the course of our investigation on the chemistry of alkenyl-(ethyl) zincs, 2* 3 generated in situ from the corresponding alkenylboranes by transmetalation, we found that in their reactions with benzylic halides, in addition to the coupling product 1, a significant amount of the reduction product 2 was obtained unexpectedly (Scheme I). Our initial ...