A. Srikrishna et R. Viswajanani, TRIBUTYLCHLOROSTANNANE AS LEWIS-ACID IN THE REGIOSELECTIVE REDUCTIVE CLEAVAGE OF KETALS, Synlett, (1), 1995, pp. 95-96
A regioselective reductive demethoxylation of dimethyl and mixed ketal
s, using sodium cyanoborohydride in the presence of a catalytic amount
of tributylchlorostannane as Lewis acid in refluxing tert-butanol is
described.