A MILD REDUCTION OF BENZYL ALCOHOLS WITH DIPHOSPHORUS TETRAIODIDE
- 5 February 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Chemistry Letters
- Vol. 12 (2), 247-248
- https://doi.org/10.1246/cl.1983.247
Abstract
On treatment with diphosphorus tetraiodide in boiling benzene, benzyl alcohols are smoothly reduced to parent hydrocarbons in good to moderate yields.Keywords
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- Phosphorus Triiodide and Diphosphorus Tetraiodide, New Reagents for Deprotecting Acetals and KetalsAngewandte Chemie-International Edition, 1980