Emerging catalytic methods for amide synthesis

Current Organic Synthesis

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 241-264

  Singh, Chitra ^a   Kumar, Vishal ^a   Sharma, Upendra ^a   Kumar, Neeraj ^a   Singh, Bikram ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Amides; Aminocarbonylation; Catalytic methods; Nitrile hydration; Oxidative amidation; Transamidation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876734216     PISSN: 15701794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1570179411310020003     Document Type: Article

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