Selective reduction by calcium hexammine: Part I. Aromatic hydrocarbons

H Boer, PM Duinker

Index: Boer; Duinker Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des Pays-Bas, 1958 , vol. 77, p. 346,359

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Abstract

Following up an investigation by Kazanskii I ) , the authors have investi- gated the use of calcium hcxammine. Ca(NH,),. as an agent for laboratory- scale selective reductions of aromatic hydrocarbons. Under carefully adjusted reaction conditions it proved to be possible to reduce polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons to compounds containing only one isolated benzene ring. Under somewhat different conditions alkyl- benzenes could be reduced to the ...