Experimental analysis of the catalytic cycle of the borane-promoted imine reduction with hydrosilanes: Spectroscopic detection of unexpected intermediates and a …

J Hermeke, M Mewald, M Oestreich

Index: Ahlbrecht, Hubertus; Dueber, Ernst-Otto Synthesis, 1980 , # 8 p. 630 - 631

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... only Si–H bonds (90 kcal/mol) but also the stronger H–H bond (108 kcal/mol) heterolytically, thereby even allowing for metal-free hydrogenation.(5, 6) Despite recent major efforts in these areas, there are just a handful of enantioselective variants of imine reductions(7, 8) and an ...