Reduction of oxi me fu nctionality to amine is an important synthetic transformation . As ox imes are stable derivatives of carbonyl compounds, subsequent reduction to amines is an attractive two-step procedure for reductive ami nation . Red uction of oximes to amines can be performed by hydride reducing agents or by catalytic hydrogenation.' Among hydride reducing agents, lithium aluminium hyd...

Sodium borohydride or sodium tetrahydroborate is used as a reducing agent in many organic and inorganic reactions. Therefore, the determination of sodium borohydride present in the system is of great importance. Borohydride releases hydrogen under appropriated conditions in the presence of a suitable catalyst. Since the amount of hydrogen emitted is proportional to the amount of borohydride, th...

The dehalogenation of a-haloketones and a-halocarbonyl compounds is an inevitable proce­ dure for the organic synthesis and these reductive dehalogenations have been often effected in organic syntheses. There have been various procedures for the purpose and these are obtained by zinc and acetic acid [1], sodium dithionite [2], titanium(III) chloride [3], organotin hydride [4], sodium hydrogen t...

In the presence of large excesses of borohydride salts, gold monolayer protected-clusters can be grown to larger sizes simply by controlling the amount of reducing agent added to smaller clusters. In addition, gold monolayer clusters can be used as catalysts for reduction reactions by sodium borohydride; results suggest such catalysts have sterically constrained active sites.