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J.M. Lalancette et al., Reduction of Functional Groups with Sulfurated Borohydrides, Synthesis 1972, 526. J. Malek u. M. Cerny, Reduction of Organic Compounds by Alkoxyaluminohydrides, Synthesis 1972, 217. S.-C. Chen, Molecular Rearrangements in Lithium Aluminium Hydride Reduction, Synthesis 1974, 691. 

Zandbergen, P., van den Nieuwendijk, A.M.C.H., Brussee, J. et al. (1992) A one-pot reduction-transimition-reduction synthesis of JV-substituted /8-ethanolamines from cyanohydrins. Tetrahedron, 48, 3977-3982. 

Anaerobic prokaryote cells based initially on pre-existing chemical and energy stores, within which conventional reductive synthesis was established, some 3.5 billion years ago. The major non-metal elements used were H, C, N, O, P, S and Se, but not B, Si, halides, or heavier non-metals. 

Reductive synthesis of fatty acids, steroids, sterols [ Cytochrome P450 system... 

The reduction of hydrazones can also be used as an indirect method of reducing, carbonyl compounds to the corresponding alkyl compounds. In addition, hydrazides have been used in the reductive synthesis of aldehydes. 

In reduction synthesis, both NaBH4 and LiAlH, will reduce aldehydes and ketones, but only UA1H4 is strong enough to reduce esters and acetates. 

Acetyl coenzyme A synthase of C. thermoaceticum is able to catalyze the whole reaction for reductive synthesis of acetyl coenzyme A from carbon dioxide, a methylated corrinnoid/iron-sulfur protein, and coenzyme A. The enzyme catalyzes several exchange reactions [147-149] ... 

A. Sekiguchi, S. Inoue, M. Ichinoche and Y. Arai, Isolable anion radical of blue disilene (,Bu2MeSi)2Si=Si(SiMeiBu2)2 formed upon one-electron reduction synthesis and characterization. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 9626-29 (2004). 

This conventional or reduction synthesis of [(CH3)2SiO] differs in several significant ways from the wollastonite- and quartz-based syntheses of [(CH3)2SiO] . For example, the reduction synthesis requires the reduction of the silicon from + 4 to 0 and then its reoxidation back to + 4. This reduction necessitates the expenditure of considerable energy, much of which is not recovered. In the new or substitution syntheses, the reduction of silicon from +4 to 0 is not required (Figure I). 

The two types of synthesis also differ in that in the reduction synthesis the number of oxygens bound to silicon is reduced from four to zero and... 

Another difference between the two types of synthesis is the way in which the methyl groups are introduced. In the reduction synthesis, the methyl groups are introduced by means of an oxidation-addition reaction, whereas in the substitution syntheses, they are introduced by means of an alkyl-de-alkoxy-substitution reaction. 

Perhaps in this connection it is worth noting that the reduction synthesis... 

Figure 2. Variation of number of oxygens bonded to silicon in reduction synthesis (top) and wollastonite-based...

An improved synthesis of dehydroascorbic acid has been reported (42). The oxidation of ascorbic acid in absolute methanol with oxygen over activated charcoal catalyst is reported to aflFord 28 in 95% yield. Dehydroascorbic acid has been characterized in solution as the monomer, 28 (43), and as the dimer (44,45) and its tetra acetyl derivative 29 (46). Several studies of mono- and di-hydrazone (48-53) and osazone (54) derivatives of dehydroascorbic acid have been reported. Hydrazone derivatives of dehydroascorbic acid have been used in the reductive synthesis of 2,3-diaza-2,3-dideoxy- and 2-aza-2-deoxyascorbic acid derivatives 30, 31, and 32 (55,56). Recently the reaction product of dehydro-L-ascorbic acid and L-phenylalanine in aqueous solution has been isolated and identified as tris(2-deoxy-2-L-ascorbyl)amine, 33, based on spectral and chemical data and its symmetry properties (57). 

The answer is d. (Murray, pp 627-661. Scriver, pp 3897-3964. Sack, pp 121-138. Wilson, pp 287-320.) The vitamin whose structure appears in the question is nicotinic acid (niacin), which gives rise to the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide coenzymes NAD and NADP. NAD is a cofactor required by all dehydrogenases. NADPII is a cofactor produced by the pentose phosphate shunt. It is utilized in reductive synthesis of compounds such as fatty acids. 

Toiii S (2006) Electroorganic reduction synthesis, vol 1-2. Kodansha, Tokyo... 

Asprey, L. B. Paine, R. T. "One Electron Reduction Synthesis of Uranium Pentafluoride," Chem. Commun. 1973, 921. 

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