Formation of secondary or tertiary aliphatic amines in aqueous media

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2859-2865

  Marieta Simion, Alina ^a   Arimura, Takashi ^b   Miyazawa, Akira ^b   Simion, Cristian ^a   Surya Prakash, G K ^c   Olah, George A ^c   Tashiro, Masashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Al powder; Aqueous media; Rh C; Ru C; Secondary amines; Self alkylation

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC AMINE; ALUMINUM; CHARCOAL; RHODIUM; RUTHENIUM;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 67651123039     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910802664269     Document Type: Article

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