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Vinylhydroxyphenyl azomethines are reduced by sodium borohydride at room temperature only at the azomethine group.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 9, pp. 2076–2078, September, 1978.
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Garashchenko, Z.M., Skvortsova, G.G. Selective reduction of vinylhydroxyphenyl azomethines by sodium borohydride. Russ Chem Bull 27, 1829–1831 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00929231
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