An Efficient Deoxgenation of Heteroaromatic N-Oxides Using Zinc Dust/Ammonium Formate Reagent System

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 4137-4141

  Balicki, Roman ^a   Cybulski, Marcin ^a   Maciejewski, Grzegorz ^a  

^a INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ammonium formate; Deoxygenation; N Oxide

Indexed keywords

AMINE; AMMONIUM FORMATE; AROMATIC AMINE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; OXIDE; REAGENT; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXYGENATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 0344736759     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/SCC-120026355     Document Type: Article

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