Current Organic Synthesis

Author(s): Attila Voros, Zoltan Baan, Geza Timari, Istvan Hermecz, Peter Mizsey and Zoltan Finta

DOI: 10.2174/15701794113106660082

Highly Efficient and Selective Addition of Hydroxylamine to Nitriles in Ionic Liquids

Page: [751 - 756] Pages: 6

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Abstract

The solvent effect of different imidazolium, phosphonium and quaternary ammonium based ionic liquids was studied for the synthesis of amidoximes, demonstrating enhanced selectivity when using IL’s as the reaction medium.

Keywords: Amidoxime, benzonitriles, green chemistry, hydroxylamine, ionic liquid, selective synthesis.

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