COMBINATION OF BORANE-DIMETHYL SULFIDE COMPLEX WITH CATALYTIC SODIUM TETRAHYDROBORATE AS A SELECTIVE REDUCING AGENT FOR α-HYDROXY ESTERS. VERSATILE CHIRAL BUILDING BLOCK FROM (S)-(−)-MALIC ACID
- 5 August 1984
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Chemistry Letters
- Vol. 13 (8) , 1389-1392
- https://doi.org/10.1246/cl.1984.1389
Abstract
Borane-dimethyl sulfide complex has proven to be an efficient and selective reducing agent in the presence of catalytic sodium tetrahydroborate for α-hydroxy esters as exemplified in the reduction of dimethyl (S)-(−)-malate, providing the versatile chiral building block of four-carbon backbone.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Dimethyl sulfide-borane. Convenient hydroborating agentThe Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1971