REDUCTIVE REACTIONS OF SUBSTITUTED PYRIDINES BY AQUEOUS TITANIUM TRICHLORIDE

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0040-4020(82)85116-8

Aqueous titanium trichloride reductively removes cyano and halo groups from the correspondingly substituted pyridines by a two electron-transfer process and promotes reduction of pyridyl-ketones and aldehydes to glycols by one electron-transfer process under very simple experimental conditions.