This form of iron gives up electrons easily and is a mild reducing agent.

It is a mild reducing agent and antioxidant.

Copper hydrides are used generally in organic synthesis as mild reducing agents.

As a mild reducing agent, it is especially used to convert imines to amines.

Iodide salts are mild reducing agents and many react with oxygen to give iodine.

They are mild oxidizing and mild reducing agents.

The uranyl ion can be reduced by mild reducing agents, such as zinc metal, to the oxidation state +4.

The other main use of sodium bisulfite is as a mild reducing agent in organic synthesis in particular in purification procedures.

Sodium borohydride is a mild reducing agent that works well in reducing aldehydes, ketones, and acid chlorides.

Divalent europium is a mild reducing agent, such that under atmospheric conditions, it is the trivalent form that predominates.

After treatment with a mild reducing agent such as sodium borohydride, this yields the product of a Markovnikov addition of nitroxide to the alkene.

Divalent europium is a mild reducing agent, oxidizing in air to form Eu(III) compounds.

Phosphine Copper hydrides Copper hydrides are generally considered mild reducing agent which meaning that they can afford better selectivity in reaction.

Since the iodide ion is a mild reducing agent, I is easily oxidised to I by powerful oxidising agents such as chlorine:

Owing to the steric and electronic effects of the acetoxy groups, sodium triacetoxyborohydride is a milder reducing agent than sodium borohydride or even sodium cyanoborohydride.

The wet chemical synthesis of thiolate-protected gold clusters is achieved by the reduction of gold(III) salt solutions, using a mild reducing agent in the presence of thiol compounds.

TarBX may used as an inexpensive and efficient way to reduce aromatic alkyl ketones to enantiomerically pure secondary alcohols in conjunction with the use of the mild reducing agent sodium borohydride.

Owing to its ability to act as a mild reducing agent and oxygen scavenger it is sometimes used as an additive in Fischer esterification reactions, where it prevents the formation of colored impurities.

Useful adducts of pyridine include pyridine-borane, CHNBH (melting point 10-11 C), a mild reducing agent with improved stability relative to NaBH in protic solvents and improved solubility in aprotic organic solvents.

The blue colour is due to an intense charge transfer transition when an electron is transferred from an orbital localized on uranium(IV), a mild reducing agent, to an orbital localized on cerium(IV), a strong oxidizing agent.