Cyanosilylation of aldehydes and ketones catalyzed by nanocrystalline magnesium oxide

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 3919-3936

  Lakshmi Kantam, M ^a   Mahendar, Koosam ^a   Sreedhar, Bojja ^a   Vijay Kumar, K ^a   Choudary, B M ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Ogene Systems (I) Pvt Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

Aldehydes; Cyanohydrin trimethylsilyl ethers; Cyanohydrins; Cyanosilylation; Ketones; Nanocrystalline magnesium oxide; Trimethylsilyl cyanide

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; CYANOHYDRIN; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; KETONE DERIVATIVE; LEWIS BASE; MAGNESIUM OXIDE; NANOCRYSTAL; SILICATE; TRIMETHYLSILYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CYANATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SILYLATION;

EID: 54349129351     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910802238791     Document Type: Article

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