Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
L-selectride is an organoborane. It is used in organic chemistry as a reducing agent for example in the reduction of a ketone as part of Overman’s synthesis of strychnine. Under certain conditions L-selectride can selectively reduce enones by conjugate addition of hydride owing to the greater steric hindrance the bulky hydride reagent experiences at the carbonyl carbon relative to the (also-electrophilic) β-position.
