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Synthetic Communications
An International Journal for Rapid Communication of Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Volume 20, 1990 - Issue 22
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A Quick Procedure for the Partial Reduction of Triple Bonds

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Pages 3421-3425 | Received 29 Sep 1990, Published online: 24 Oct 2006
 

Abstract

Regio-as well as stereospecific cis-reductions of a wide variety of acetylenic derivatives can be carried out in absolute ethanol with zinc powder activated with 1,2-dibromoethane and with zinc powder treated successively with dibromoethane and lithium bromocuprate, the first reagent being less powerful and more selective than the second one.

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