A simple and efficient catalytic system for coupling aryl halides with aqueous ammonia in water

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1854-1857

  Wu, Zhiqing ^a   Jiang, Zhaoqiong ^a   Wu, Di ^a,b   Xiang, Haifeng ^a   Zhou, Xiangge ^a,b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amination; Copper; Cross coupling; Nitrogen heterocycles; Water chemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949851475     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: 10990690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201000060     Document Type: Article

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