Mechanistic aspects of fluoride ion-catalyzed reduction of carbonyl compounds with hydrosilanes

✍ Scribed by Makoto Fujita; Tamejiro Hiyama

• Book ID: 104227581
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 144 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)96096-9

✦ Synopsis

Fluoride ion catalyzed reduction of aldehydes and ketones with hydrosilane in HMPA is found to involve a hexavalent silicate [HSiR3F(HMPA)]-as the active hydride species. and no evidence is obtained for interaction of the carbonyl oxygen with the silicon.