Calcium borohydride: A reagent for facile conversion of carboxylic esters to alcohols and aldehydes

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Calcium borohydride reduces both aliphatic and aromatic esters to alcohols completely in the presence of alkene catalysts. The intermediate borates formed during the reduction of aromatic esters are converted to aldehydes with aqueous NaOCl in good yields.

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Calcium Borohydride
S. Narasimhan a , K. Ganeshwar Prasad a & S.
Madhavan a
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To cite this article: S. Narasimhan , K. Ganeshwar Prasad & S. Madhavan (1995):
Calcium Borohydride, Synthetic Communications: An International Journal for Rapid
Communication of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 25:11, 1689-1697
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