Letters in Organic Chemistry

Author(s): Liang Zhang, Weige Zhang, Xin Wang, Kai Bao, Guodong Lu and Jinshun Lin

DOI: 10.2174/157017808784872025

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Ultrasound Assisted Selective Reduction of Chalcones to Dihydrochalcones by Zn/HOAc

Page: [370 - 373] Pages: 4

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Abstract

An efficient ultrasound assisted method has been developed for the chemoselective synthesis of dihydrochalcones from chalcones using Zn/HOAc as a reductive system. Under the reaction conditions, isolated double bonds, benzyloxy groups and aromatic halides are found to remain unaffected.

Keywords: Chemoselective reduction, dihydrochalcones, chalcones, ultrasound, Zn/HOAc