[amanda.castro]

Hi, guys!

I've been reading, recently, about deoxygenation and i read that exist a technique called "deoxygenation with alkali metals in liquid ammonia". I searched in google for more info about this technique, but nothing!
Could you guys, please, tell me more about this? Or send me some article or material which explain this?

Thank you!

[Arkcon]

The topic is pretty common in standard Organic Chemistry textbooks.  Which is why I moved your topic to this sub-forum.  the "deoxygenation" is really more the selective replacement of an -OH group with a hydrogen.  This topic is very interesting ... to people who want to use it for illicit purposes.  So, be careful where your next questions on the this topic go, or the thread will end up locked.  But here's a start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton%E2%80%93McCombie_deoxygenation

[amanda.castro]

Ok, i just would like to know more about this technique(deoxygenation with alkali metals in liquid ammonia). I read about in this link:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejoc.201300657/abstract

As you can see in "abstract" he only mentions this technique.

[Borek]

So, are you amanda.castro, or laura.g.berger?

[amanda.castro]

I'm Amanda. Laura is my roommate. We study together. How do you know?
Because of "thestudentroom"?
I posted from her computer. Didn't see she was logged in. I thought i was logged in.

Could you tell me which one of this books has this topic? Deoxygenation. Or tell me some good and easy to understand text book who tells more about the subject of this topic?
http://www.chemicalforums.com/index.php?topic=2414.0

[AlphaScent]

There is always the oxidize and then Clemmensen or Wolf-Kischner reduction route...

Also, the common way is elimination then hydrogenation..

Is she referring to the birch reduction?