Vitamin B1 as a metal-free organocatalyst for greener Paal-Knorr pyrrole synthesis

Environmental Chemistry Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 369-375

  Darabi, Hossein Reza ^a   Aghapoor, Kioumars ^a   Darestani Farahani, Abbas ^a   Mohsenzadeh, Farshid ^a  

^a CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Metal ion free organocatalyst; Paal Knorr reaction; Pyrrole

Indexed keywords

AMINES; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BIOSYNTHESIS; ETHANOL; METAL IONS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; TRANSITION METALS;

KNORR PYRROLE SYNTHESIS; METAL FREE; METAL ION-FREE ORGANOCATALYST; METAL-FREE CATALYSTS; METALS IONS; ORGANOCATALYSTS; PAAL-KNORR; PAAL-KNORR REACTION; PYRROLE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVES;

ORGANOCATALYST;

EID: 84868538688     PISSN: 16103653     EISSN: 16103661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10311-012-0361-7     Document Type: Article

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