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For use in the reductive cyclization of nitro ketones to pyrroles, see 2-Benzylidenecyclohexanone, L13434 and 3-Penten-2-one, L13031.• Disulfides and N-tosylsulfimines are reduced, under phase-transfer conditions, to thiols and sulfides respectively: Synthesis, 529 (1975). In the presence of iodine as a catalyst, sulfoxides are reduced to sulfides in high yield: Synthesis, 542 (1978).
• Has been used to reduce ketones to secondary alcohols: Tetrahedron Lett., 343 (1972), and aldehydes to primary alcohols: J. Chin. Chem. Soc., 21, 235 (1973).