ChemInform Abstract: Zinc-Catalyzed Chemoselective Reduction of Esters to Alcohols.

✍ Scribed by Shoubhik Das; Konstanze Moeller; Kathrin Junge; Matthias Beller

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 33 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201145053

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A wide range of aromatic and aliphatic esters smoothly undergoes Zn‐catalyzed reduction in the presence of SiHMe(O‐Et)~2~ to give the corresponding alcohols in good yields.