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Selective reduction of carboxylic acids to aldehydes catalyzed by B(C 6F5)3
Bezier, David,Park, Sehoon,Brookhart, Maurice
supporting information, p. 496 - 499 (2013/03/29)
B(C6F5)3 efficiently catalyzes hydrosilylation of aliphatic and aromatic carboxylic acids to produce disilyl acetals under mild conditions. Catalyst loadings can be as low as 0.05 mol %, and bulky tertiary silanes are favored to give selectively the acetals. Acidic workup of the disilyl acetals results in the formation of aldehydes in good to excellent yields.
