Gas-phase selective N-alkylation of amines with alcohols over γ-alumina

✍ Scribed by Frédéric Valot; Fabienne Fache; Roland Jacquot; Michel Spagnol; Marc Lemaire

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 240 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(99)00588-2

✦ Synopsis

Gas-phase conditions were successfully used for fine chemistry, in the N-alkylation of amines with alcohols as alkylating agents and "/-alumina as a catalyst. The method is also suitable for chiral compounds.