Photo-enhanced reduction of carbonyl com
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Jung Hoon Choi; Dae Whang Kim; Sang Chul Shim
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Article
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1986
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Elsevier Science
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French
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The reduction of ketones and some esters by sodium borohydride is dramatically accelerated by uv irradiation. The reaction seems to proceed from the (n, .rr\*) excited state of the carbonyl compound. The photocatalytic effect is dependent on the solvent polarity and substituents on aromatic carboxyl