Forty years of hydride reductions

Cyanohydridoborate anion as a selective reducing agent

Richard F. Borch, Mark D. Bernstein, H. D. Durst · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1971 · 1.8K citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry +5

Lithium Aluminum Hydride, Aluminum Hydride and Lithium Gallium Hydride, and Some of their Applications in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry¹

A. E. Finholt, Arthur C. Bond, H. I. Schlesinger · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1947 · 542 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Materials Science +6

Reduction of Aldehydes, Ketones and Acid Chlorides by Sodium Borohydride

Saul W. Chaikin, Weldon G. Brown · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1949 · 350 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry +7

Lithium tri-sec-butylborohydride. New reagent for the reduction of cyclic and bicyclic ketones with super stereoselectivity. Remarkably simple and practical procedure for the conversion of ketones to alcohols in exceptionally high stereochemical purity

Herbert C. Brown, S. Krishnamurthy · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1972 · 292 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry +7

Hydrides of Boron. VII. Evidence of the Transitory Existence of Borine (BH₃): Borine Carbonyl and Borine Trimethylammine

Anton B. Burg, H. I. Schlesinger · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1937 · 249 citations

Natural Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +6