Reductions in Organic Synthesis. Recent Advances and Practical Applications

Content: Sixty years of hydride reductions / Herbert C. Brown and P. Veeraraghavan Ramachandran --
New developments in chiral ruthenium (II) catalysts for asymmetric hydrogenation and synthetic applications / Jean Pierre Genet --
Tartrate-derived ligands for the enantioselective LiAlH₄ reduction of ketones : a comparison of TADDOLates and BINOLates / Albert K. Beck, Robert Dahinden, and Florian N.M. Kühnle --
Electrophilic assistance in the reduction of six-membered cyclic ketones by alumino- and borohydrides / Jacqueline Seyden-Penne --
Recent advances in asymmetric reductions with B-chlorodiisopinocampheylborane / P. Veeraraghavan Ramachandran and Herbert C. Brown --
The practical enantioselective reduction of prochiral ketones / Anthony O. King ... [et al.] --
Diphenyloxazaborolidine for enantioselective reduction of ketones / George J. Quallich, James F. Blake, and Teresa M. Woodall --
Diastereo- and enantioselective hydride reductions of ketone phosphinyl imines to phosphinyl amines : synthesis of protected amines and amino acids / Robert O. Hutchins ... [et al.] --
Remote acyclic diastereocontrol in hydride reductions of 1,n-hydroxy ketones / Bruce E. Maryanoff ... [et al.] --
Synthesis, characterization, and synthetic utility of lithium aminoborohydrides : a new class of powerful, selective, air-stable reducing agents / Gayane Godjoian ... [et al.] --
Sodium borohydride and carboxylic acids : a novel reagent combination / Gordon W. Gribble --
Use of sodium triacetoxyborohydride in reductive amination of ketones and aldehydes / Ahmed F. Abdel-Magid and Cynthia A. Maryanoff.