Formic acid as a hydride donor: Reduction of acid chlorides to aldehydes

✍ Scribed by K.M. Shamsuddin; Md.Omair Zobairi; Mohd.Asif Musharraf

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 106 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(98)01815-2

✦ Synopsis

Chlorides of a variety of acids : primary, secondary, tertiary, long chain aliphatic and tx~-unsaturated have been converted into aldehydes by reduction with formic acid at pH 9-10 at room temperature in high 3ields.