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Preparation of Alkylchromium Reagents by Reduction of Alkyl Halides with Chromium(II) Chloride under Cobalt Catalysis
Takai, Kazuhiko,Nitta, Kenji,Fujimura, Osamu,Utimoto, Kiitiro
, p. 4732 - 4734 (1989)
Alkyl halides and tosylates are reduced with CrCl2 in the presence of a catalytic amount of vitamin B12 or cobalt phthalocyanine to give alkylchromium reagents, which add to aldehydes without affecting the coexisting ketone or ester groups.