Aladdin® Reducing Agents

Sandra Forbes

Product Manager

A reducing agent, also known as a reductant, is a substance that has the ability to donate electrons to another substance. In other words, it is a substance that can cause another substance to gain electrons and become reduced. Reducing agents are often involved in redox (reduction-oxidation) reactions, which are chemical reactions in which electrons are transferred from one substance to another. In a redox reaction, the reducing agent is oxidized as it donates electrons to the other substance, which is thereby reduced. Some common examples of reducing agents include metals such as zinc and iron, as well as certain chemicals like sodium borohydride and hydrogen gas. These substances are often used in industrial processes such as the production of metals and the reduction of organic compounds. Reducing agents are also important in biological systems, where they play a key role in metabolism and energy production. For example, the electron transport chain in cells relies on the transfer of electrons from reducing agents such as NADH to oxidizing agents such as oxygen.

From A to Z

AcSH; Thioacetic acid

ADH

Alcohol dehydrogenase

Ammonia borane; Borane ammonia complex

Ascorbic Acid; Vitamin C

BBA; Bis-boric acid; Tetrahydroxydiboron

9-BBN; 9-Borabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane

Benzaldehyde

Benzyl alcohol

Bis(neopentylglycolato)diboron

Bis(pinacolato)diboron

Boranes; Diborane; Dimethylsulfide Borane; DMSB

Borane trimethylamine complex; Trimethylamine borane

2-Butanol; sec-Butanol

Calcium hypophosphite

Catecholborane

CHD; 1,4-Cyclohexadiene

DEMS; Diethoxymethylsilane

DIBAL-H; Diisobutylaluminium hydride

Diethyl 1,4-dihydro-2,6-dimethyl-3,5-pyridinedicarboxylate; Hantzsch Ester

Diethylsilane

1,3-Dimethylimidazol-2-ylidene borane

1,4-Dioxane

Diphenylsilane

DMMS; Dimethoxymethylsilane

Ethanol

Fe; Iron

Formaldehyde

Formic acid

Hydrazine

Hypophosphorous acid

Indium (low valent)

Isopropanol; 2-Propanol

LAH; Lithium aluminum hydride; Lithium tetrahydridoaluminate

LiTEBH; Lithium triethylborohydride; Superhydride

Lithium

Lithium tri-tert-butoxyaluminum hydride; LTBA

Magnesium

Manganese

3-Mercaptopropionic acid; 3-MPA

Methanol

2-Methylpyridine borane; α-Picoline-borane; PICB

Molybdenum hexacarbonyl

Neodymium (low valent)

Nickel

Niobium (low valent)

Phenylsilane

Phosphorous acid

Pinacolborane

PMHS; Polymethylhydrosiloxane

P(NMe2)3; Tris(dimethylamino)phosphine

Potassium

Potassium borohydride; Potassium tetrahydroborate

Potassium iodide

Red-Al; Sodium bis(2-methoxyethoxy)aluminumhydride

Rongalite; Sodium hydroxymethanesulfinate

Samarium (low valent)

Schwartz's Reagent; Zirconocene chloride hydride

Selenium

Silanes

Sodium

Sodium bisulfite; Sodium hydrogensulfite

Sodium borohydride; Sodium tetrahydroborate

Sodium cyanoborohydride; Sodium cyanotrihydroborate

Sodium dithionite; Sodium hydrosulfite

Sodium hypophosphite

Sodium triacetoxyborohydride

Strontium

Sulfur

Tetrabutylammonium borohydride

Tetramethyldisiloxane; TMDSO; TMDS

Tin hydrides; Tributyltin hydride; Tributylstannane

Titanium (low valent)

p-Toluenesulfonyl hydrazide

Tributylphosphine

Triethoxysilane

Triethylphosphine

Triethylsilane; TES

Trimethylphoshpine

Trimethylphosphite

Triphenylphosphine

Triphenylphosphite

Triphenylsilane

Tris(trimethylsilyl)silane; TTMSS

Vasicine

Zinc

Quoted from: https://www.organic-chemistry.org/chemicals/reductions/

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