Chemistry Letters, Vol.35, No.5, 488-489, 2006
Highly selective reduction of cinnamaldehyde to cinnamyl alcohol using nanometric alkali metal hydrides
Under mild reaction conditions, cinnamaldehyde was reduced to cinnamyl alcohol with high selectivity and conversion using nano-LiH or nano-NaH as a reducing agent. Selectivity of 99.8% was obtained as reduced by nano-LiH with conversion of 99.4% in short reaction times.