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SUBMITTER: Kolmar SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5812026 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20170731 31
Samarium diiodide in the presence of water and THF (SmI<sub>2</sub>(H<sub>2</sub>O)<sub>n</sub>) has in recent years become a versatile and useful reagent, mainly for reducing carbonyl-type substrates. This work reports the reduction of several enamines by SmI<sub>2</sub>(H<sub>2</sub>O)<sub>n</sub>. Mechanistic experiments implicate a concerted proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) pathway, based on various pieces of evidence against initial outer-sphere electron transfer, proton transfer, or ...[more]