Efficient ring opening of aziridines with carboxylic acids

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1527-1532

  Kumar, Manoj ^a,b   Gandhi, Shikha ^a   Kalra, Swinderjeet Singh ^b   Singh, Vinod K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b D A V COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Amino alcohols; Amino esters; Unactivated aziridines

Indexed keywords

AMINE; AMINOALCOHOL; AZIRIDINE DERIVATIVE; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ESTER DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; DIASTEREOISOMER; HYDROLYSIS; RING OPENING; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 42549099898     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910801928723     Document Type: Article

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