Grade 12Organic Chemistry
Does sodium borohydride reduce alkenes? What about lithium aluminium hydride?
1 Answer
Bhatnagar Rishabh Sushil
they cant reduce alkenes into alkanes because in a c=c there is no nucleophilic nature the H- ion needs a positive carbon to attack like in a functional group with oxygen the carbon has a slight possitive charge.
though LiAlH4 has been reported to reduce double bonds in resonance conjugation with a phenyl ring and a carbonyl group as in cinnamic acid.
LiAlH4 is stronger reducing agent than NaBH4 so it can reduce esters and cyclic esters too but NaBH4 cant
though LiAlH4 has been reported to reduce double bonds in resonance conjugation with a phenyl ring and a carbonyl group as in cinnamic acid.
LiAlH4 is stronger reducing agent than NaBH4 so it can reduce esters and cyclic esters too but NaBH4 cant
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