Chemistry Letters, Vol.41, No.3, 229-231, 2012
Selective Reduction of Carboxylic Acids to Aldehydes by a Ruthenium-catalyzed Reaction with 1,2-Bis(dimethylsilyl)benzene
Novel transformation of carboxylic acids to aldehydes is achieved by a one-pot procedure consisting of a ruthenium-catalyzed hydrosilane reduction with 1,2-bis(dimethylsilyl)benzene (2) followed by hydrolysis of the resulting cyclic disilylacetals 4.