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Dry yeast-induced decomposition of dilute aqueous hydrogen peroxide to produce oxygen is a safe, simple, economical replacement for thermal decomposition of potassium chlorate for thermal decomposition of potassium chlorate in molar volume and molar mass experiments.

Rosenblum4 has reported the reduction of the furan ring of 2-furoic acid using sodium and ammonia as well as sodium, alcohol, and ammonia, but he was unable to reduce furan (1) by the same methods. 2-Methylfuran (2) also is not reducible using sodium in ammoniaS5 Furfuryl alcohol (3) has been converted (about 40%) into 2 with sodium in liquid ammonia, but no further reduction was observedUB It has been shown that there are only slight differences between sodium-alcohol-ammonia reductions and those employing lithium-alcohol-methylamine.7 However, in previous work Benkeser and coworkers8 demonstrated that lithium-amine is a more powerful if less selective reducing system than sodium-ammonia.On the basis of the aforementioned facts, it seemed worthwhile to attempt the reduction of 1-3 using lithium in methylamine.

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