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A combination of polymethylhydrosiloxane (PMHS) and AlCl3 was found to be a superior hydride source for reductive ring opening of cyclic benzylidene acetals of both 1,2- and 1,3-diols.
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Chandrasekhar et al. (1998) studied this question.
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