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Synthetic Communications
An International Journal for Rapid Communication of Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Volume 26, 1996 - Issue 4
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Unusual Reactivity of Zinc Borohydride - Conversion of Amino Acids to Amino Alcohols

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Pages 703-706 | Received 28 Jun 1995, Published online: 21 Nov 2007
 

Abstract

Zinc borohydride reduces amino acids with only stoichiometric amounts of hydride to the corresponding chiral alcohols in excellent yields in the absence of any Lewis acid.

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