Bromobenzoic ethyl ester

Nonactivated esters are reduced only slowly if at all in strongly acidic medium at a lead cathode [45], whereas alkyl benzoates are reduced to a mixture of benzyl alcohol and alkyl benzyl ether [45,46], and alkyl 4-imidazolecarboxylates similarly are reduced to a mixture of the corresponding alcohol and ether [76]. Phenyl and benzyl benzoate give predominantly esters [23,34], as do also ethyl o-chloro- and m-bromobenzoate [46]. 

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