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Chemistry Letters
Combination of borane-dimethyl sulfide complex with catalytic sodium tetrahydroborate as a selective reducing agent for α-hydroxy esters. Versatile chiral building …
Borane-dimethyl sulfide complex has proven to be an efficient and selective reducing agent in the presence of catalytic sodium tetrahydroborate for α-hydroxy esters as exemplified in the reduction of dimethyl (S)-(−)-malate, providing the versatile chiral building block of four- carbon backbone.
