Simple methodology for the preparation of amino alcohols from amino acid esters using nabh4-methanol in THF

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1276-1281

  Goncalves, R S B ^a,b   Pinheiro, A C ^a   Da Silva, E T ^a   Da Costa, J C S ^a   Kaiser, C R ^b   De Souza, M V N ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amino alcohol; reduction; sodium borohydride

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; AMINO ACID ESTER; AMINOALCOHOL; METHANOL; SODIUM BOROHYDRIDE; TETRAHYDROFURAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG SYNTHESIS; PURIFICATION; RACEMIZATION; REACTION TIME; REDUCTION;

EID: 79953661786     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397911.2010.481747     Document Type: Article

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