Sodium borohydride-copper salts

CHROMIC ACID, DISODIUM SALT (10588-01-9) A strong oxidizer. Reacts violently with reducing agents, acids, acetic anhydride, hydrazine, combustible materials, organic substances, metal powders. Reacts with acrolein, antimony trisulfide, antimony tritelluride, arsenic pentasulfide, 1,1-dichloro-l-nitroethane, 1,3-dichloropropene, diethylamine, fluorine, hydrazine, potassium iodide, sodium tetraborate, sodium tetraborate decahydrate, sodium borohydride, zirconium dusts, r-trioxane. Incompatible with m-bis(trichlormethyI)benzene, hydroxylamine. Aqueous solution is caustic incompatible with acids, alcohols, aldehydes, alkylene oxides, cresols, caprolactam solution, epichlorohydrin, organic anhydrides, glycols, maleic anhydride, phenols. Attacks aluminum copper, brass, bronze, tin, zinc, especially in the presence of moisture. 

The reduction of metal salts with borohydride or trialkylborohydride is a widely used colloid synthesis method. The preparation of platinum microcrystals having a mean diameter of 28 A by the reduction of chloroplatinic add with sodium borohydride has been reported as a reprodudble standardized preparation. [52] PVP stabilized copper sols have been prepared by borohydride reduction of copper salts. [53, 54] In some cases, however, the formation of metal... 

Colloids of alloys have been made by the chemical reduction of the appropriate salt mixture in the solution phase. Thus, Ag-Pd and Cu-Pd colloids of varying composition have been prepared by alcohol reduction of mixtures of silver nitrate or copper oxide with palladium oxide (Vasan and Rao 1995). Fe-Pt alloy nanocrystals have been made by thermal decomposition of the Fe and Pt acetylac-etonates in high-boiling organic solvents (Sun et al. 2000). Au-Ag alloy nanocrystals have been made by co-reduction of silver nitrate and chloroauric acid with sodium borohydride (Sandhyarani et al. 2000 He et al. 2002). 

Reduction of acid chlorides to aldehydes One of the most useful synthetic transformations in organic synthesis is the conversion of an acid chloride to the corresponding aldehyde without over-reduction to the alcohol. Until recently, this type of selective reduction was difficult to accomplish and was most frequently effected by catalytic hydrogenation (the Rosenmund reduction section 6.4.1). However, in the past few years, several novel reducing agents have been developed to accomplish the desired transformation. Among the reagents that are available for the partial reduction of acyl chlorides to aldehydes are bis(triphenylphosphine)cuprous borohydride , sodium or lithium tri-terf-butoxyaluminium hydride, complex copper cyanotrihydridoborate salts °, anionic iron carbonyl complexes and tri-n-butyltin hydride in the presence of tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0). ... 

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