Reduction of azides to amines or amides with zinc and ammonium chloride as reducing agent

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 3279-3284

  Lin, Wenqing ^a   Zhang, Xiaomei ^a   He, Ze ^a   Jin, Yi ^a   Gong, Liuzhu ^a   Mi, Aiqiao ^a  

^a CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; AMINE; AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; AZIDE; REDUCING AGENT;

ARTICLE; REDUCTION; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036387086     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/SCC-120014032     Document Type: Article

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