Green and practical synthesis of carbamates from ureas and organic carbonates

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1102-1111

  Guo, Xiaoguang ^a,b   Shang, Jianpeng ^a,b   Li, Jian ^a,b   Wang, Liguo ^a,b   Ma, Yubo ^a,b   Shi, Feng ^a   Deng, Youquan ^a  

^a LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Atom economy; carbamates; carbonates; clean synthesis; lanthana; urea derivatives

Indexed keywords

BUTYL BENZYLCARBAMATE; BUTYL CYCLOHEXYLCARBAMATE; BUTYL PHENYLCARBAMATE; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBANILIC ACID METHYL ESTER; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBONIC ACID DIETHYL ESTER; DIBUTYL CARBONATE; ETHYL 4 TOSYLCARBAMATE; ETHYL CYCLOHEXYLCARBAMATE; LANTHANUM OXIDE; METHYL 4 CHLOROPHENYLCARBAMATE; METHYL 4 TOLYLCARBAMATE; METHYL 4 TOSYLCARBAMATE; METHYL BENZYLCARBAMATE; METHYL BUTYLCARBAMATE; METHYL CYCLOHEXYLCARBAMATE; METHYL DODECYLCARBAMATE; METHYL HEPTYLCARBAMATE; SILICON DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CARBONYLATION; CATALYST; METHYLATION; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 79952919636     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397911003707055     Document Type: Article

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