Acyloxyborane: An activating device for carboxylic acids

…, Y Miwa, K Iwanaga, H Yamamoto

Index: Furuta, Kyoji; Miwa, Yoshikazu; Iwanaga, Kiyoshi; Yamamoto, Hisashi Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1988 , vol. 110, # 18 p. 6254 - 6255

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Abstract

The synthetic power of borane reduction of carboxylic acids is well-documented, and the reaction is widely used as the peerless method in organic synthesis.'The remarkable reactivity of borane toward carboxylic acids over esters is one of the conspicuous ...