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The Hive => Novel Discourse => Topic started by: Rhodium on November 11, 2003, 11:39:00 AM

Title: Sodium Aluminum Hydride Reductions
Post by: Rhodium on November 11, 2003, 11:39:00 AM

Sodium Aluminum Hydride
Zakharkin et.al., Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Khim., 561 (1964)
Reductions using the cheap LAH analog NaAlH₄ in hydrocarbon solvents.

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(azole: "reductions with NaAlH4 in hydrocarbon media", Russian HyperLab)

Title: NaAlH4
Post by: hest on November 11, 2003, 06:58:00 PM

But NaAlH4 is not so effektive to reduce nitrogroup's (acording Hudlick'y's book 'reductions').

Title: AlH3
Post by: azole on November 13, 2003, 09:31:00 AM

But NaAlH4 is not so effektive to reduce nitrogroup's
   Just add 100% H₂SO₄ (1/2 mol. eq.) or AlCl₃ (1/3 mol. eq.). Theoretically, it should work, at least, in THF or in glyme.

Title: AlH3
Post by: hest on November 13, 2003, 10:07:00 AM

Nice touch, and yes it will.