
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sweetman, BJ 
A1  - Maclaren, JA 
T1  - The reduction of wool keratin by tertiary phosphines
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 1966
VL  - 19
IS  - 12
SP  - 2347
EP  - 2354
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9662347 
N2  - Reduction of the disulphide groups in wool keratin by various substituted phosphines has been studied. Tri(hydroxymethyl)phosphine and tri(diethylaminomethyl)phosphine effect considerable reduction but with these reagents side reactions also occur, probably due to the formation of formaldehyde, as they hydrolyse in aqueous solution.   With tri-n-butylphosphine the reduction is apparently specific and nearly quantitative. Only a slight excess of this reductant is required. 
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