SIR: After a hydroboration reaction mixture was analyzed by gas chromatography, subsequent analysis on this column of our neutral fraction revealed that we did not obtain our expected gas chromatographic pattern. The peaks corresponding to the alcohols were completely missing.Knowing that primary and secondary alcohols will react with boric acid ( I ) , we theorized that the boric acid present in the hydroboration misture had removed the alcohols.
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