title: Facile Protocol for Catalytic Frustrated Lewis Pair Hydrogenation and Reductive Deoxygenation of Ketones and Aldehydes.
abstract: A series of ketones and aldehydes are reduced in toluene under H2 in the presence of 5 mol % B(C6F5)3 and either cyclodextrin or molecular sieves affording a facile metal-free protocol for reduction to alcohols. Similar treatment of aryl ketones resulted in metal-free deoxygenation yielding aromatic hydrocarbons.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H6 (Canada).
authors.forename: Tayseer
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mahdi
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H6 (Canada). dstephan@chem.utoronto.ca.
authors.forename: Douglas W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Stephan
keywords: boranes; deoxygenation; frustrated Lewis pairs; hydrogenation