HIGHLY SELECTIVE AMIDATION OF BENZYLIC ALCOHOLS WITH NITRILES - A MODIFIED RITTER REACTION

Authors
FIROUZABADI H SARDARIAN AR BADPARVA H
Citation
H. Firouzabadi et al., HIGHLY SELECTIVE AMIDATION OF BENZYLIC ALCOHOLS WITH NITRILES - A MODIFIED RITTER REACTION, Synthetic communications, 24(5), 1994, pp. 601-607
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Inorganic & Nuclear
Journal title
Synthetic communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00397911
Volume
24
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
601 - 607
Database
ISI
SICI code
0039-7911(1994)24:5<601:HSAOBA>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
Benzyl alcohols react selectively with different nitriles in the prese nce of a catalytic amount of boron trifluoride and produce amides in h igh yields. Deactivated p-nitrobenzyl, allylic, primary, secondary, an d tertiary saturated alcohols do not react.