ChemInform Abstract: Copper(II) Exchanged Cation Exchange Resin: Useful Activator in the Reduction of Ketones.
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Various ketones, e.g. (I), are reduced with NaBH4 to give the corresponding secondary alcohols, e.g. (II), using a copper(II) exchanged cation exchange resin as the activator. The reduction of cyclic ketones leads predominantly to the formation of equatorial alcohols. This method is compared with the results of the reduction using NaBH4/CuSO4 in the absence of an activator.
