Reduction of Organic Compounds by Mixed Hydrides. II. Hydrogenolysis of Ketones and Alcohols1

RF Nystrom, CRA Berger

Index: Nystrom; Berger Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1958 , vol. 80, p. 2896

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Citation Number: 129

Abstract

Diary1 ketones, alkyl aryl ketones and certain aryl alcohols are smoothly reduced to the corresponding hydrocarbon by the lithium aluminum hydride-alumilum chloride reagent in ether solution at 35'. There are notable differences in the ease and extent of reduction which varies with the order of mixing the reactants and with the groups present in the organic component,