The reduction of αβ-unsaturated ketones with sodium borohydride in methanol solution in the presence of cerium chloride gives almost exclusively the allylic alcohol, sometimes stereoselectively; the reduction of a variety of natural products containing a conjugated keto-group is described.
J. Luche, L. Rodriguez-Hahn and P. Crabbé, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1978, 601 DOI: 10.1039/C39780000601
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