Selective Reduction of a, β-Unsaturated Nitrocompounds with Sodium Borohydride in Methanolic Solutions: A Facile Route to Nitroalkenes
- 1 February 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Synthetic Communications
- Vol. 15 (2), 151-155
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00397918508076821
Abstract
α, β-Unsaturated nitroalkenes are rapidly and selectively reduced at room temperature to nitro-alkanes in high yields by sodium borohydride in a tetrahydrofuran-methanol solvent system.Keywords
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