Potassium tri-isopropoxyborohydride. A new mild complex hydride reducing agent with high stereoselectivity for reduction of ketones
- 1 January 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 12,p. 391
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39730000391
Abstract
The readily prepared potassium tri-isopropoxyborohydride exhibits exceptionally mild reducing properties, yet rapidly reduces ketones with high stereoselectivity to the less stable of the corresponding alcohol epimers.Keywords
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