Tetrahedron Letters

Selective reduction of dienes/polyenes using sodium borohydride/catalytic ruthenium (III) in various liquid amide aqueous mixtures

JH Babler, DW Ziemke, RM Hamer

Index: Babler, James H.; Ziemke, David W.; Hamer, Robert M. Tetrahedron Letters, 2013 , vol. 54, # 13 p. 1754 - 1757

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Abstract

An efficient method to effect selective reduction of several structurally diverse dienes and an unsymmetrical triene is reported. The reduction is facile at 0° C in a liquid amide aqueous solution containing sodium borohydride in the presence of 15mol% ruthenium (III) chloride. The chemoselectivity of the reaction is controlled by proper choice of the liquid amide solvent.