Hydride Reduction by a Sodium Hydride-Iodide Composite
作者:Pei Chui Too、Guo Hao Chan、Ya Lin Tnay、Hajime Hirao、Shunsuke Chiba
DOI:10.1002/anie.201600305
日期:2016.3.7
Sodium hydride (NaH) is widely used as a Brønsted base in chemical synthesis and reacts with various Brønsted acids, whereas it rarely behaves as a reducing reagent through delivery of the hydride to polar π electrophiles. This study presents a series of reduction reactions of nitriles, amides, and imines as enabled by NaH in the presence of LiI or NaI. This remarkably simple protocol endows NaH with