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The mechanism of the reduction of α,β-unsaturated (steroid) ketones with diborane

✍ Scribed by Ian Midgley; Carl Djerassi


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1972
Tongue
French
Weight
130 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-4039

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✦ Synopsis


Caglioti and coworkers have shown that certain a&unsaturated ketones react with excess diborane, and after hydrolysis of the organoborane intermediate with acetic anhydride, good yields of an alkene are obtained. 192 The reaction undoubtedly follows the course depicted in the Scheme: Scheme


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