Iron-catalyzed generation of α-amino nitriles from tertiary amines

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Volumn 355, Issue 14-15, 2013, Pages 3058-3070

  Wagner, Alexander ^a   Han, Wei ^a,b   Mayer, Peter ^a   Ofial, Armin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

C H functionalization; Cyanation; Deuteration; Oxidation; Regioselectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895105852     PISSN: 16154150     EISSN: 16154169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201300441     Document Type: Article

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