Conclusions
The reduction of the monoethylene ketals of cyclicβ-diketones and the enol acetates ofβ-diketones with sodium borohydride is stereospecific, but proceeds with the formation of different isomers of the hydroxy ketals.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2757–2762, December, 1974.
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Levchenko, N.K., Segal', G.M. & Torgov, I.V. Reduction of β-dicarbonyl compounds with sodium borohydride. Russ Chem Bull 23, 2660–2664 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00923700
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