Lithium triethylborohydride and monomeric aluminium t-butoxide as the active intermediates in the reductive opening of tetrahydrofuran and related ethers by the triethylborane induced reaction of lithium tri-t-butoxyaluminohydride
- 1 January 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 15,p. 868-869
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39720000868
Abstract
The remarkable reductive opening of tetrahydrofuran and related ethers by lithium tri-t-butoxyaluminohydride in the presence of triethylborane involves lithium triethylborohydride and a metastable monomeric aluminium t-butoxide formed initially in the reaction of the two reagents.Keywords
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