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Organic Reactions Using Sodium Hydrogentelluride: Part 4. The Selective Reduction of Aromatic Aldehydes or Ketones with Electron-Withdrawing Groups on the Benzene Ring by Sodium Hydrogentelluride

✍ Scribed by Masakazu Yamashita; Yoshifumi Tanaka

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 194 KB
Volume: 10
Category: Article
ISSN: 0268-2605
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0739(199612)10:10<791::aid-aoc515>3.0.co;2-z

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✦ Synopsis

Aromatic aldehydes or ketones which have electron-withdrawing groups on the benzene ring were selectively reduced to the corresponding alcohols in good yields by sodium hydrogentelluride; common aldehydes such as benzaldehyde and tolualdehyde were inert.