Thiols as polarity reversal catalysts for hydrogen-atom transfer from organosilanes to alkyl radicals: reduction of alkyl halides by triethylsilane
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 18,p. 1387-1388
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39890001387
Abstract
Triethylsilane reduces alkyl halides to alkanes under mild conditions in the presence of thiols, which act as polarity reversal catalysts for hydrogen-atom transfer from the silane to an alkyl radical.Keywords
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