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DOI: 10.1039/A808977I (Paper) Reference Section for: Chem. Commun., 1999, 287-288

Uncatalysed hydrogen-transfer reductions of aldehydes and ketones

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Laurence Bagnell and Christopher R. Strauss

Abstract

Aldehydes and ketones are reduced to the corresponding alcohols by transfer hydrogenation at high temperature with EtOH, PrnOH or PriOH as hydrogen donors in the absence of catalysts and base.

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