Benzimidazolin-2-ylidene N-heterocyclic carbene complexes of ruthenium as a simple catalyst for the N-alkylation of amines using alcohols and diols

RSC Advances

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 4434-4442

  Shan, Siah Pei ^a   Xiaoke, Xie ^b   Gnanaprakasam, Boopathy ^a,c   Dang, Tuan Thanh ^a   Ramalingam, Balamurugan ^a   Huynh, Han Vinh ^b   Seayad, Abdul Majeed ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATION; AMINES; CATALYSTS; CHELATION; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; RUTHENIUM; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ALIPHATIC ALCOHOL; ALKYLATING AGENTS; EFFICIENT CATALYSTS; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; HETEROCYCLIC AMINES; N-HETEROCYCLIC CARBENE COMPLEX; N-HETEROCYCLIC CARBENE LIGANDS; RUTHENIUM COMPLEXES;

LIGANDS;

EID: 84919608393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra15398g     Document Type: Article

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