There was a lot of controversy on this topic 20 years ago.
on the hive, on the hyperlab, on the erovid, in the literature on chemistry.
nowhere and never have I seen nitropropene reduced with sodium borohydride so easily and in high yields.
I'm not 100% sure.
but in my opinion all this is doubtful and may be a fake.
though it looks impressive.
I know that transition metal salts can be catalysts for such reductions.
but I have not seen such a reaction with such good outputs anywhere, I think if it worked, then everyone would have known about it for a long time.
in the classic formulation of rhodium, sodium borohydride can be used to reduce nitrostyrenes to phenethylamines with a normal preparative yield of the reaction product.
but never, on any site, anywhere and no one over the past 20 years has said that borohydride can reduce nitropropenes in high yields in the same way.
It turns out a dilemma.
Everything looks great and the video is of good quality, but judging by other sources, this cannot be.
P.S. I hope I'm wrong and it really works, because the video looks very impressive.
Oh it works.... tricky to get it to go but it definitely works... it's actually been used in labs for quite some time. Nothing new. Just wished the video hit up on the important moments but I guess of you do enough homework it is figure out able except for reading forums.... I've yet to have any of that rambling work.
