Zinc chloride-catalyzed expeditious route to nitriles

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1276-1279

  Pasha M A ^a   Nizam, Aatika ^a  

^a BANGALORE UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Aldehydes; Hydroxyl ammonium hydrochloride; Microwave; Nitriles; ZnCl 2

Indexed keywords

4 METHOXYBENZONITRILE; ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; ARALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; HYDROXYLAMMONIUM; NITRILE; SOLVENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; ONE POT SYNTHESIS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77951026580     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910903069657     Document Type: Article

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