Efficient reduction of acyl chlorides with zinc borohydride/N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethylenediamine

✍ Scribed by Hiyoshizo Kotsuki; Yasuyuki Ushio; Naka Yoshimura; Masamitsu Ochi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 112 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)84952-7

✦ Synopsis

Various acyl chlorides are efficiently reduced to the corresponding alcohols under mild conditions by treatment with zinc borohydride in the presence of N,N,N' ,N'-tetramethylethylenediamine.