ᮣᮣᮣᮣ Gelest, Inc. Gelest Gelest, Inc. Telephone: General 215-547-1015 Order Entry 888-734-8344 FAX: 215-547-2484 Internet: www.gelest.com Correspondence: 11 East Steel Road Morrisville, PA 19067, USA In Europe: ABCR GmbH & Co. KG Im Schlehert D-76187 Karlsruhe Germany Tel: +49 - 721 - 950610 Fax: +49 - 721 - 9506180 e-mail:
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[email protected] ©2004 Gelest, Inc. Gelest, Inc. Silicon-Based Reducing Agents Edited by Gerald L. Larson, Ph.D. Vice President, Research Products Materials for the reduction of: Aldehydes Ketones Acetals Ketals Esters Lactones Thioesters Enamines Imines Acids Amides Halides Olefins Metal Halides Supplement to the Gelest Catalog, “Silicon, Germanium & Tin Compounds, Metal Alkoxides and Metal Diketonates” which is available on request. (215) 547-1015 FAX: (215) 547-2484 www.gelest.com 1 Gelest, Inc. SILICON-BASED REDUCING AGENTS Introduction The widely-used organometallic-based reducing agents can be broadly classified as either ionic, such as lithium aluminum hydride and sodium borohydride, or free-radical such as tri-n-butyltin hydride. The mechanistic differences between these two classes of reducing agents very often complement one another in their ability to reduce organic substrates.