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Ahhh! Titanium Chloride!
So I was at work today and I was told I had to reduce an oxime using titanium chloride and sodium borohydride. Now let me tell you this reaction is NASTY. There was so much toxic gas, bubbles, foam, and heat given off (and this was on roughly a 100mg scale). Titanium chloride is pretty nasty stuff to work with, so do any of you expert o chemists have any milder ways to reduce an oxime to an amine?
So I was at work today and I was told I had to reduce an oxime using titanium chloride and sodium borohydride. Now let me tell you this reaction is NASTY. There was so much toxic gas, bubbles, foam, and heat given off (and this was on roughly a 100mg scale). Titanium chloride is pretty nasty stuff to work with, so do any of you expert o chemists have any milder ways to reduce an oxime to an amine?