A variation of it called the Warton reaction uses the same reagents but only applies to alpha-beta epoxycarbonyl compounds.
A variation of it called the Warton reaction uses the same reagents but only applies to alpha-beta epoxycarbonyl compounds. Parquet and Lin developed a microwave-assisted version of this reaction, and Cram and Sahyun showed that along with the Cope elimination, this procedure is greatly sped up if performed in DMSO. The original version uses sealed tubes at very high temperature, but a one-pot version that mixes all of the reactants in ethylene glycol was developed by Huang and Minlon. Driven by the formation of nitrogen gas and complementary to the Clemmensen reduction, FTP, name this reduction that uses hydrazine to transform a carbonyl into an alkane, named for a Russian and a German.
A variation of it called the Warton reaction uses the same reagents but only applies to alpha-beta epoxycarbonyl compounds.
{Wolff-Kishner} Reaction