Selective reduction of tertiary, allyl, and benzyl halides by zinc-modified cyanoborohydride in diethyl ether

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Abstract

Zinc-modified cyanoborohydride in diethyl ether reduces tertiary, allyl, and benzyl halides to the corresponding hydrocarbons but the reagent is inert toward primary alkyl, secondary alkyl, vinyl, and aryl halides.

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Part of this work was presented at the 185th National Meeting of American Chemical Society, Seattle, WA, March 1983.

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