Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Amidation of Unactivated Alkyl Bromides

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 55, Issue 37, 2016, Pages 11207-11211

  Serrano, Eloisa ^a   Martin, Ruben ^a,b  

^a BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

cross coupling; nickel; reductive coupling; synthetic methods

Indexed keywords

AMIDES; NICKEL; ORGANOMETALLICS;

ALIPHATIC AMIDES; ALKYL BROMIDES; CHEMO-SELECTIVITY; CROSS-COUPLINGS; EFFICIENT SYNTHESIS; ORGANOMETALLIC REAGENT; REDUCTIVE COUPLINGS; SYNTHETIC METHODS;

CATALYSIS;

EID: 84976877686     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201605162     Document Type: Article

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