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Cetyltrimethylammonium hydroxide (CTAOH) as a general, ecofriendly catalyst for the formation of carbon–carbon bond through nitroalkanes

R Ballini, D Fiorini, MV Gil, A Palmieri

Index: Ballini, Roberto; Fiorini, Dennis; Gil, Maria Victoria; Palmieri, Alessandro Tetrahedron, 2004 , vol. 60, # 12 p. 2799 - 2804

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Abstract

Nitroalkanes have been found to give good yields in Michael and nitroaldol (Henry) reactions by the use of a catalytic amount (10mol%) of CTAOH, at room temperature and under solvent free conditions and in very short reaction times. The methods do not need a large excess of the nitroalkanes and show good chemoselectivity toward further functionalities.