Kinetics, stereochemistry, and mechanism of the sodium borohydride reduction of alkyl-substituted cyclohexanones

B Rickborn, MT Wuesthoff

Index: Rickborn,B.; Wuesthoff,M.T. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1970 , vol. 92, # 23 p. 6894 - 6904

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Abstract

Abstract: The previously used method for determining the kinetics of sodium borohydride reduction of cyclohexanones was shown to be inadequate, giving rise to small errors leading to measurably low rate constants. A silver nitrate-ethylenediamine potentiometric method gave correct values as shown by correspondence with the rate constants determined directly by vpc analysis. Changes in stereochemistry during the course of ...