Qiu, You-Chun; Zhang, Fu-Li; Zhang, Chun-Nian published the artcile< A practical and efficient procedure for reduction of carboxylic acids and their derivatives: use of KBH4-MgCl2>, Category: esters-buliding-blocks, the main research area is carboxylic acid ester anhydride imide reduction borohydride magnesium chloride.
The use of KBH4-MgCl2 to reduce carboxylic acids and their derivatives to the corresponding alcs. or the resp. reduced products is described. Me (S)-3,4-O-isopropylidene-3,4-dihydroxybutanoate used as a reference substrate was reduced with KBH4 and MgCl2 in 1:1 mol ratio to 80 % (S)-1,2-O-isopropylidene-1,2,4-butanetriol. KBH4-LiCl gave higher yields but LiCl is more expensive than MgCl2.
Tetrahedron Letters published new progress about Alcohols Role: SPN (Synthetic Preparation), PREP (Preparation). 617-55-0 belongs to class esters-buliding-blocks, and the molecular formula is C6H10O5, Category: esters-buliding-blocks.
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