ギ酸による還元反応

抄録

In an abundance of the previous papers formic acid has been exhibited as a versatile reducing agent for diverse organic compounds. This article is an attempt to review its reduction reactions, but does not exhaustively cover every paper in the literature. Attention has been made, in the main, to a consideration of studies in the reduction induced by formic acid or formate itself. Therefore, the reductions which seem likely to depend upon its prior decomposition are left out of consideration. Particularly, emphasis in this article is laid upon the works in recent decade on the reductions by the use of the formic acid-trialkylamine azeotropes as reducing agents, which have been devoted to developing several fields of the reduction.