Novel uncatalyzed hydrocyanation of ketones utlizing tetrachlorosilane- potassium cyanide reagent

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1313-1319

  Salama, Tarek A ^a,b   Elmorsy, Saad S ^a   Khalil, Abdel Galel M ^a   Girges, Margret M ^a   El Ahl, Abdel Aziz S ^a  

^a Mansoura University   (Egypt)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOHYDRIN; KETONE; POTASSIUM CYANIDE; SILANE DERIVATIVE; SILICON TETRACHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CYANATION; HYDRATION;

EID: 34247156683     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910701226897     Document Type: Article

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