Photo-ritter reaction of arylmethyl bromides in acetonitrile

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 2617-2623

  Bi, Nai Min ^a   Ren, Ming Guang ^a   Song, Qin Hua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Acetamides; arylmethyl bromides; photolysis; Ritter reaction

Indexed keywords

ACETAMIDE DERIVATIVE; ACETONITRILE; METHYL BROMIDE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE; RADICAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYDROLYSIS; PHOTO RITTER REACTION; PHOTOLYSIS; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955443142     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910903297555     Document Type: Article

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