Solutions of electride salts are powerful reducing agents, as demonstrated by their use in the Birch reduction.
Birch reduction provided tetraene 25 and acid treatment gave the dione 26 dubbed pentacyclenone.
Cyclohexanone is obtained by Birch reduction followed by acid hydrolysis.
A common use of sodium dissolved in liquid ammonia is the Birch reduction.
Receiving the greatest attention are complexes of the cyclohexadienes, the parent organic 1,4-dienes being available through the Birch reductions.
In the Birch reduction, the secondary reaction is proton abstraction from an alcohol.
They are susceptible to reduction through the Birch reduction.
A Birch reduction of naphthalene takes 5 minutes elution time.
This reaction is a modification of the Birch reduction.
It can be synthesized by Birch reduction from the nonyl-analog of cannabidiol.