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  2. Sodium hydride - Wikipedia

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    Sodium hydride is the chemical compound with the empirical formula Na H.This alkali metal hydride is primarily used as a strong yet combustible base in organic synthesis.NaH is a saline (salt-like) hydride, composed of Na + and H − ions, in contrast to molecular hydrides such as borane, silane, germane, ammonia, and methane.

  3. Wittig reagents - Wikipedia

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    The alkylphosphonium salt is deprotonated with a strong base such as n-butyllithium: [Ph 3 P + CH 2 R]X − + C 4 H 9 Li → Ph 3 P=CHR + LiX + C 4 H 10. Besides n-butyllithium (n BuLi), other strong bases like sodium and potassium t-butoxide (t BuONa, t BuOK), lithium, sodium and potassium hexamethyldisilazide (LiHMDS, NaHMDS, KHDMS, where HDMS = N(SiMe 3) 2), or sodium hydride (NaH) are also ...

  4. Carbonyl reduction - Wikipedia

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    The idealized equation for the reduction of an ester by lithium aluminium hydride is: 2 RCO 2 R' + LiAlH 4 → LiAl(OCH 2 R) 2 (OR') LiAl(OCH 2 R) 2 (OR') + 4 H 2 O → LiAl(OH) 4 + 2 HOCH 2 R + 2 HOR' Sodium borohydride can, under some circumstances, be used for ester reduction, especially with additives. [1]

  5. Cannizzaro reaction - Wikipedia

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    The k' pathway implicates a reaction between the doubly charged anion (RCHO 2 2−) and the aldehyde. The direct transfer of hydride ion is evident from the observation that the recovered alcohol does not contain any deuterium attached to the α-carbon when the reaction is performed in the presence of D 2 O.

  6. Enantioselective reduction of ketones - Wikipedia

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    Fig. 1 shows an example of a diastereoselective CBS reduction being used to prepare a complex macrocyclic alcohol en route to the synthesis of 11-desmethyllaulimalide [22] (an analog of the antitumor agent laulimalide). The authors noted that CBS reduction was much more effective than using either lithium tert-butoxyaluminum hydride or L ...

  7. Alcohol (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    The term alcohol originally referred to the primary alcohol ethanol (ethyl alcohol), which is used as a drug and is the main alcohol present in alcoholic drinks. The suffix -ol appears in the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) chemical name of all substances where the hydroxyl group is the functional group with the ...

  8. Reductions with hydrosilanes - Wikipedia

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    Reductions with hydrosilanes are methods used for hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis of organic compounds.The approach is a subset of ionic hydrogenation.In this particular method, the substrate is treated with a hydrosilane and auxiliary reagent, often a strong acid, resulting in formal transfer of hydride from silicon to carbon. [1]

  9. Alcohol oxidation - Wikipedia

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    Alcohol oxidation is a collection of oxidation reactions in organic chemistry that convert alcohols to aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, and esters. The reaction mainly applies to primary and secondary alcohols. Secondary alcohols form ketones, while primary alcohols form aldehydes or carboxylic acids. [1] A variety of oxidants can be used.