Several new selective reductions of organic compounds using complex metal hydrides and hydride reducing systems are discussed. Sodium diethylpiperidinoaluminate is an excellent agent for the partial reduction of esters to the corresponding aldehydes. Borohydride exchange resin (BER) is a convenient reagent for the chemoselective reduction of carbonyl compounds and also for reductive amination. BER-N$B has proved to be an excellent chemoselective reducing agent for olefins, halides, azides, and nitro compounds in the presence of many functional groups such as epoxides, esters, amides, and nitriles. On the other hand, BER-Cu is a reagent of choice for the reduction of a,kunsaturated acid derivatives and amine N-oxides.The discovery of sodium borohydride' in 1942 and of lithium aluminum hydride' in 1945 brought about a revolutionary change in procedures utilized for the reduction of functional groups in organic molecules. However, NaBH, is a very mild reducing agent which reduces only aldehydes, ketones, and acyl chlorides, whereas LiAM, is an exceedingly powerful reducing agent, capable of reducing practically all organic functional g r o~p s .~ In order to find more selective reducing agents, considerable efforts have been made to modify these two extremes for more than forty years? Many new metal hydrides have been prepared, studies of the reducing characteristics of these hydrides have developed a number of selective reduction methods valuable to organic synthesis. Among them, several recent developments in our laboratory are discussed in this conference.