Question

Reduction of nitrile to amine with sodium borohydride

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Nitriles can also be reduced to aldehydes. ... Useful reagents for this reaction include formic acid with a hydrogenation catalysis or metal hydrides which are used to add one mol of hydrogen to the nitrile. For example, sodium borohydride reduces nitriles in alcoholic solvents with a CoCl2 catalyst or Raney nickel