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A novel and unusual reaction of enol ethers with banzyltriethylammonium borohydride and chlorotrimethylsilane

…, N Chidambaram, N Narasimhan, S Chandrasekaran

Index: Baskaran, S.; Chidambaram, N.; Narasimhan, N.; Chandrasekaran, S. Tetrahedron Letters, 1992 , vol. 33, # 42 p. 6371 - 6374

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Abstract

Abstract Benzyltriethylammonium borohydride-chlorotrimethylsilane reagent system has been found to effect a novel and unusual reaction with cyclic and cyclic enol ethers 1 to give exclusively diols and alcohols 2 respectively in high yields, under very mild reaction conditions.