On the mechanism of the deoxygenation of secondary alcohols by the reduction of their methyl xanthates by tin hydrides

A new method for the deoxygenation of secondary alcohols

Derek H. R. Barton, Stuart W. McCombie · Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1 · 1975 · 1.6K citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Biocatalysis +9

Modern methods for the radical deoxygenation of alcohols

Wolfgang Hartwig · Tetrahedron · 1983 · 321 citations

Natural Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +9

Steroids and sex hormones. Part 262. The radical induced stannane reduction of selenoesters and selenocarbonates: A new method for the degradation of carboxylic acids to nor‐alkanes and for desoxygenation of alcohols to alkanes

Johannes Pfenninger, Christoph Heuberger, Walter Graf · Helvetica Chimica Acta · 1980 · 113 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +9

Radical-Induced Deoxygenation of Primary Alcohols

Derek H. R. Barton, William B. Motherwell, Andreas F. Stange · Synthesis · 1981 · 109 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +11

Diaryl telluroxides as new mild oxidising reagents

Steven V. Ley, Clive A. Meerholz, Derek H. R. Barton · Tetrahedron · 1981 · 98 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry +3