Safe and efficient reductive methylation of primary and secondary amines using N-methylpyrrolidine zinc borohydride

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 2415-2420

  Alinezhad, Heshmatollah ^a   Tajbakhsh, Mahmood ^a   Salehian, Fatemeh ^a   Fazli, Kazem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAZANDARAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Amine; formaldehyde; reductive methylation; ZBHNMP

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC AMINE; AROMATIC AMINE; FORMALDEHYDE; PYRROLIDINE DERIVATIVE; TERTIARY AMINE; TETRAHYDROFURAN; ZINC DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; METHYLATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REDUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77955028069     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910903249606     Document Type: Article

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