Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation, A Chemo-Selective Reduction of Isoflavones to Isoflavanones
- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Synthetic Communications
- Vol. 16 (13) , 1657-1663
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00397918608056424
Abstract
Isoflavones can be selectively reduced by catalytic transfer hydrogenation employing formic acid, ammonium formate or triethylammonium formate in the presence of 10% Pd/C. The reaction is simple, clean and gives fair yields of isoflavanones.Keywords
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