Ranu Brindaban C, Samanta Sampak
Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Calcutta-700 032, India.
J Org Chem. 2003 Sep 5;68(18):7130-2. doi: 10.1021/jo0347821.
A combination of sodium borohydride and a catalytic amount of indium(III) chloride in acetonitrile reduces exclusively the alpha,beta-carbon-carbon double bond in alpha,beta,gamma,delta-unsaturated diaryl ketones, dicarboxylic ester, cyanoester, and dicyano compounds.