Reductive amination of aldehydes and ketones in a heterogeneous system in THF and under solvent-free conditions using sodium borohydride-silica phosphoric acid

H Alinezhad, M Tajbakhsh, RE Ahangar

Index: Alinezhad, Heshmatollah; Tajbakhsh, Mahmoud; Ahangar, Roja Enayati Monatshefte fur Chemie, 2008 , vol. 139, # 1 p. 21 - 25

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Abstract

Summary. A chemoselective, fast, efficient, and high yielding method for the preparation of amines by reductive amination of aldehydes and ketones using sodium borohydride in the presence of silica phosphoric acid in THF and under solvent-free conditions at room temperature is described.