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A safe and convenient new procedure for reducing aromatic compounds to birch-type products

RA Benkeser, JA Laugal, A Rappa

Index: Benkeser, Robert A.; Laugal, James A.; Rappa, Angela Tetrahedron Letters, 1984 , vol. 25, # 20 p. 2089 - 2092

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Download full text in PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... Aromatic compounds can be reduced by a calcium-amine-t-butyl alcohol system to products which are identical to those obtained by a Birch reduction of the same substrates. ... Org. Synth. Coll. Vol. II (1943), p. 116 The Hershberg stirrer we used in this work had only one ...

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