Amino-, alkoxy-, and alkylthio-isocyanates and -isothiocyanates, RX-NCY, their isomers RX-YCN and RX-CNY, and their rearrangements

Current Organic Chemistry

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1745-1759

  Wentrup, Curt ^a   Finnerty, Justin J ^a,b   Koch, Rainer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyanates; Isocyanates; Isothiocyanates; Nitrile oxides; Nitrile sulfides; Thiocyanates

Indexed keywords

CYANIDES; NITROGEN OXIDES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CYANATE; ENE TYPE REACTIONS; ISOCYANATE; ISOTHIOCYANATES; NITRILE OXIDES; NITRILE SULFIDES; REARRANGEMENT REACTIONS; SIGMATROPIC SHIFTS; THIOCYANATE;

ISOMERS;

EID: 79958697743     PISSN: 13852728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138527211795656624     Document Type: Review

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