Sodium Borohydride-t-butyl Alcohol-Methanol as an Efficient System for the Selective Reduction of Esters
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Synthetic Communications
- Vol. 12 (6), 463-467
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00397918208065953
Abstract
Reduction of esters to the corresponding primary alcohols by metal hydrides is an important synthetic reaction.1 One may often encounter the problem of the selective reduction of esters in the presence of other functional groups such as amide, carboxylic acid or nitrile.2Keywords
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