Aluminium porphyrins, such as chloroaluminium porphyrin, catalyse a novel hydrogen transfer process in the reduction of aldehydes or ketones with alcohols, and the reactions eventually proceed with very high stereoselectivities.
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Konishi et al. (1988) studied this question.
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