ChemInform Abstract: Reduction of Organic Halides with Sodium and Potassium Gallium Hydrides and Chemoselective Reduction of Organic Halides with Potassium Gallium Hydride in Multifunctional Compounds.

Abstract

Sodium and potassium gallium hydride exhibit excellent reducing power for the reduction of aliphatic and aromatic halides to the corresponding alkanes or arenes, respectively. KGaH 4 possesses lower reducing power than NaGeH 4 , however, it proves to be an excellent reagent for the selective reduction of the halide in the presence of various functional groups such as ester, nitrile and lactone.