2,2-Azobenzothiazole as a new recyclable oxidant for heterogeneous thiocyanation of aromatic compounds with ammonium thiocyanate

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 2040-2047

  Iranpoor, Nasser ^a   Firouzabadi, Habib ^a   Shahin, Rezvan ^a   Khalili, Dariush ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aromatic compounds; azobenzothiazole; heterogeneous; thiocyanation

Indexed keywords

2,2' AZOBENZOTHIAZOLE; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; BENZOTHIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; HYDRAZINE DERIVATIVE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; THIOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CYANATION; REACTION OPTIMIZATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SYNTHESIS; THIOCYANATION;

EID: 84859179088     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397911.2010.551699     Document Type: Article

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