Yan-bo Tang, Q. Zhang, De-Quan Yu
Oct 1, 2012
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Chinese Chemical Letters
Abstract
Abstract An unexpected reduction of dimethyl pyridine-2,3-dicarboxylate to 1,2,3,4-tetrahydrofuro[3,4-b]pyridin-5(7H)-one with sodium borohydride in ethanol and tetrahydrofuran, respectively, is described, a hypothetic mechanism for the unusual reductive product is proposed.