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Selective Reduction of $\alpha,\beta$-Unsaturated Ketones with Borohydride Exchange Resin-$CuSO_4$ in Methanol

  • Yoon, Nung-Min;Sim, Tae-Bo
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.749-752
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    • 1993
  • Borohydride exchange resin $(BER)-CuSO_4$ system readily reduces {\alpha},{\beta}$-unsaturated ketones to the corresponding saturated alcohols quantitatively. This reduction tolerates many functional groups such as carbon-carbon multiple bonds, chlorides, epoxides, esters, amides and nitriles.