Copper-catalyzed rearrangement of oximes into primary amides

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 52, Issue 33, 2011, Pages 4252-4255

  Sharma, Sumeet K ^a,d   Bishopp, Simon D ^a   Liana Allen, C ^a   Lawrence, Ruth ^a   Bamford, Mark J ^b   Lapkin, Alexei A ^c   Plucinski, Pawel ^d   Watson, Robert J ^b   Williams, Jonathan M J ^a  

^a University of Bath Claverton Down   (United Kingdom)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amide; Copper; Rearrangement; Sustainable chemistry; Synthetic methods

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; AMIDE; COPPER; COPPER OXIDE; OXIME DERIVATIVE; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; HEATING; MICROWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 79960282593     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: 18733581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2011.05.129     Document Type: Article

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