• Versatile reducing agent showing significant and useful differences from sodium borohydride. Review: Tetrahedron, 35, 567 (1979). For use in reduction of esters, see: J. Org. Chem., 47, 1604 (1982).
• Useful catalyst, in acetonitrile, for conversion of acid-sensitive aldehydes to 1,3-oxathiolanes and 1,3-dithiolanes: Synlett, 238 (2001).
• The combination of LiBH4 and TMS chloride is a versatile, powerful reducing agent, which will reduce carboxylic acids, amino acids, amides, nitriles, etc: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 28, 218 (1989).
• Monograph: J. Seyden-Penne, Reductions by the Alumino- and Borohydrides In Organic Synthesis, 2nd ed., Wiley, N.Y. (1997).