Cyanation of N-acylhydrazones with trimethylsilyl cyanide promoted by a Brønsted base and a Lewis acid

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Volumn 347, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 1899-1903

  Konishi, Hideyuki ^a   Ogawa, Chikako ^a   Sugiura, Masaharu ^a   Kobayashi, Shu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amines; Cyanides; Hydrazones; Lewis acids; Nucleophilic addition; Scandium

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144479358     PISSN: 16154150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.200505272     Document Type: Article

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