Amine salt-catalyzed synthesis of 5-substituted 1H-tetrazoles from nitriles

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 2624-2632

  Zhou, Yi ^a,b   Yao, Cheng ^a   Ni, Renjie ^a   Yang, Gaowen ^b  

^a NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHANGSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

3+2 cycloaddition; Amine salt catalyst; azide; heterocycles; tetrazole

Indexed keywords

AMINE; N,N DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; NITRILE; SODIUM AZIDE; TETRAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CYCLOADDITION; QUANTUM YIELD; REACTION ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 77955450141     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910903318583     Document Type: Article

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