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Stereoisotopic study of the reduction of 1-phynylethanol by etherated boron trifluoride-triethylsilane system

I Smonou, M Orfanopoulos

Index: Smonou, Ioulia; Orfanopoulos, Michael Tetrahedron Letters, 1988 , vol. 29, # 45 p. 5793 - 5796

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Abstract

Abstract The kinetic hydrogen-deuterium isotope effects and the stereochemistry of the deoxygenation of 1-phenylethanol with boron trifluoride and triethylsilane have been studied. The results are consistent with a mechanism that involves the formation of the phenethyl cation in a rate determining step and its fast reduction with triethylsilane.