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Reductions of various O-ethyl coumarin-3-carboxylates and O-ethyl coumarin-3-thioncarboxylates with diborane, borane dimethyl sulfide. 9-borabicyclo3.3.1nonane, and bist-butylthioethane-diborane lead to the corresponding 3,4-dihydro derivatives with good yields.
KIRKIACHARIAN et al. (Wed,) studied this question.