
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jackson, MB 
A1  - Mander, LN 
A1  - Spotswood, TM 
T1  - Reduction of N-substituted azetidin-2-ones to azetidines
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 1983
VL  - 36
IS  - 4
SP  - 779
EP  - 788
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9830779 
N2  - Reduction of N-substituted azetidin-2-ones to N-substituted azetidines was accomplished rapidlyand in good yield with diborane in tetrahydrofuran and with alane in ether. The stereochemistryof the ring substituents was retained under the reaction conditions. 3-Aminopropanol derivativesformed by reductive ring cleavage were sometimes obtained as by-products in diborane reductionsbut not in alane reductions. The reductions of fourteen azetidin-2-ones to azetidines with diboraneand eighteen with alane are reported. 
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