Zirconium borohydride - A versatile reducing agent for the reduction of electrophilic and nucleophilic substrates

Article abstract of DOI:10.1080/00397910008087061

Zirconium borohydride, a potential reducing agent, reduces acids, esters, imines to the corresponding alcohols and secondary amines in good yield at room temperature within two hours. This facile reducing property was taken advantage off in the synthesis of pheromones and some novel chiral precursors for asymmetric synthesis.

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Zirconium Borohydride - a
Versatile Reducing Agent for
the Reduction of Electrophilic
and Nucleophilic Substrates
S. Narasimhan a & R. Balakumar a
a Centre for Agrochemical Research, SPIC Science
Foundation , Guindy, Madras, 600 032
Published online: 04 Dec 2007.
To cite this article: S. Narasimhan & R. Balakumar (2000) Zirconium Borohydride
- a Versatile Reducing Agent for the Reduction of Electrophilic and Nucleophilic
Substrates, Synthetic Communications: An International Journal for Rapid
Communication of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 30:23, 4387-4395, DOI:
10.1080/00397910008087061
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