Journal of Organic Chemistry

Notes-Magnesium Bromide Catalysis in the Lithium Borohydride Reduction of Substituted Styrene Oxides

GJ Park, R Fuchs

Index: Fuchs Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1956 , vol. 78, p. 5612

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Abstract

Numerous failures to duplicate this method indicated the lack of specific detail in the description of the synthetic method. It is essential that the nitric acid be cooled to 0" before addition to a slurry of I in glacial acetic acid at the same temperature. Addition of the acid at room temperature results in benzil or N, N'-dibenzoyl urea as the sole products isolable.