Silver-catalysed direct amination of unactivated C-H bonds of functionalized molecules

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yang, Mingyu ^a   Su, Bo ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Chen, Kang ^a   Jiang, Xingyu ^a   Zhang, Yun Fei ^a   Zhang, Xi Sha ^a   Chen, Guihua ^a   Cheng, Ye ^a   Cao, Zhichao ^a   Guo, Qing Yun ^a   Wang, Lushun ^b   Shi, Zhang Jie ^a,c,d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry Shanghai   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE; CARBON; HYDROGEN; PROTON;

BIOACTIVITY; CARBON; CHEMICAL BONDING; HYDROGEN; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SILVER;

AMINATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; COVALENT BOND; CYCLIZATION; METALLATION; PROTON TRANSPORT;

EID: 84907342206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5707     Document Type: Article

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