Direct Leuckart-type reductive amination of aldehydes and ketones: A facile one-pot protocol for the preparation of secondary and tertiary amines

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 129-132

  O'Connor, Danielle ^a   Lauria, Ashley ^a   Bondi, Steven P ^a   Saba, Shahrokh ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aldehydes; Ketones; Reductive amination; Secondary amines; Tertiary amines

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; AMINE; KETONE DERIVATIVE; TERTIARY AMINE;

AMINATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; ONE POT SYNTHESIS; REDUCTION;

EID: 78649854588     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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