Potassium, fluoride doped on alumina: An efficient catalyst for conversion of aldoximes into nitriles

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 887-890

  Movassagh, Barahman ^a   Shokri, Salman ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aldoximes; Dehydration; KF Al2O3; Nitriles

Indexed keywords

ALDOXIME; ALUMINUM OXIDE; NITRILE; POTASSIUM FLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL CONVERSION; CHEMICAL REACTION; DEHYDRATION; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 15944361909     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/SCC-200051052     Document Type: Article

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