Reductive removal by sodium borohydride of side-chain oxygen from phenolic ketones
- 1 January 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by CSIRO Publishing in Australian Journal of Chemistry
- Vol. 22 (3) , 601-605
- https://doi.org/10.1071/ch9690601
Abstract
The reduction of a variety of phenolic carbonyl compounds with boiling aqueous alkaline sodium borohydride has been studied. When the carbonyl group is ortho or para to a phenolic hydroxyl, reduction proceeds to the methylene derivative, but stops at the carbinol stage when the phenolic hydroxyl and carbonyl group are meta oriented. ��� The simplicity and selectivity of the reaction makes it of synthetic value.Keywords
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