Polymer Supported Zinc Borohydride: A Stable, Efficient, Selective, and Regenerable Reducing Agent for Variety of Organic Compounds

Document Type : Research Note

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Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Shiraz University, Postcode 71454, Shiraz, I.R. IRAN

10.30492/ijcce.1996.10433

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The difficult to handle and store zinc borohydride, Zn(BH4)2, is stabilized by supporting it on polyvinylpyridine. This new mild, efficient, selective, and regenerable polymer supported borohydride reducing agent reduces a variety organic compounds such as, aldehydes, a-b-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, acid chlorides, epoxides, disulfides, as well as reductive acetylation of carbonyl compounds. It absolutely discriminates aldehydes from ketones.  

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