Conversion of alkyl halides into alcohols via formyloxylation reaction with DMF catalyzed by silver salts

Synthesis

Volumn , Issue 19, 2005, Pages 3355-3361

  Abad, Antonio ^a   Agulló, Consuelo ^a   Cuñat, Ana C ^a   Navarro, Ismael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alcohols; Alkyl halides; Catalysis; Eliminations; Nucleophilic substitutions

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ESTERS; HALIDE MINERALS; HYDROLYSIS; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ALKYL HALIDES; ELIMINATIONS; FORMATE ESTER; NUCLEOPHILIC SUBSTITUTIONS;

ALCOHOLS;

ALCOHOL; ALKYL GROUP; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HALIDE; SILVER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULE;

EID: 29044446411     PISSN: 00397881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-918453     Document Type: Article

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