Metal–amine reduction of sterically hindered esters to alkanes, a new method for the deoxygenation of hindered alcohols
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 2,p. 68-69
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39780000068
Abstract
Acetates of sterically hindered secondary alcohols and of tertiary alcohols are reduced by lithium in ethylamine to afford predominantly the corresponding alkanes, rather than the parent alcohols.Keywords
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