کاهش‌ها در سنتز آلی: پیشرفت‌های اخیر و کاربردهای عملی: توسعه‌یافته از سمپوزیومی که توسط بخش شیمی آلی در دویست و دهمین نشست ملی انجمن شیمی آمریکا حمایت شده است

Content: Sixty years of hydride reductions / Herbert C. Brown and P. Veeraraghavan Ramachandran -- New developments in chiral ruthenium (II) catalysts for asymmetric hydrogenation and synthetic applications / Jean Pierre Genet -- Tartrate-derived ligands for the enantioselective LiAlH4 reduction of ketones : a comparison of TADDOLates and BINOLates / Albert K. Beck, Robert Dahinden, and Florian N.M. Kühnle -- Electrophilic assistance in the reduction of six-membered cyclic ketones by alumino- and borohydrides / Jacqueline Seyden-Penne -- Recent advances in asymmetric reductions with B-chlorodiisopinocampheylborane / P. Veeraraghavan Ramachandran and Herbert C. Brown -- The practical enantioselective reduction of prochiral ketones / Anthony O. King ... [et al.] -- Diphenyloxazaborolidine for enantioselective reduction of ketones / George J. Quallich, James F. Blake, and Teresa M. Woodall -- Diastereo- and enantioselective hydride reductions of ketone phosphinyl imines to phosphinyl amines : synthesis of protected amines and amino acids / Robert O. Hutchins ... [et al.] -- Remote acyclic diastereocontrol in hydride reductions of 1,n-hydroxy ketones / Bruce E. Maryanoff ... [et al.] -- Synthesis, characterization, and synthetic utility of lithium aminoborohydrides : a new class of powerful, selective, air-stable reducing agents / Gayane Godjoian ... [et al.] -- Sodium borohydride and carboxylic acids : a novel reagent combination / Gordon W. Gribble -- Use of sodium triacetoxyborohydride in reductive amination of ketones and aldehydes / Ahmed F. Abdel-Magid and Cynthia A. Maryanoff.

Describes recent advances in reduction, including the use of boron- and aluminum-based hydride reagents, as well as catalytic hydrogenation methods. Reports applications of reduction procedures with emphasis on selectivity, ranging from chemoselective to enantioselective reductions. Offers chapters on different aspects of reduction and presents a complementary mix of academic and industrial research ranging from theory to practical applications. Includes an overview chapter with 200 references by Nobel laureate H.C. Brown that surveys the development of hydride reduction in organic chemistry over the past 60 years.