Citation: Ping Da REN, Shi Feng PAN, Ting Wei DONG, Shi Hui WU. Selective Reduction of α,β-Unsaturated Amides with NaBH₄/BiCl₃ System[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;1996, 7(9): 788-789. shu

Selective Reduction of α,β-Unsaturated Amides with NaBH₄/BiCl₃ System

Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433

Received Date: 2 April 1996

Fund Project: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

α, β-Unsaturated amides with various substitution patterns at the carbon-carbon double bond and nitrogen atom can be reduced to the corresponding saturated amides with high selectivity and yields with NaBH₄/BiCl₃ system.
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