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Hydration of nitriles to amides by a chitin-supported ruthenium catalyst


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Article

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Authors

Matsuoka, A 
Isogawa, T 
Morioka, Y 
Knappett, BR 
Wheatley, AEH 

Abstract

Chitin-supported ruthenium (Ru/chitin) promotes the hydration of nitriles to carboxamides under aqueous conditions.

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3405 Organic Chemistry, 34 Chemical Sciences

Journal Title

RSC Advances

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Journal ISSN

2046-2069
2046-2069

Volume Title

5

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Sponsorship
This work was partly supported by grant from Yoshida Foundation for Science and Technology (to H.N.) and the program “Integrated Research on Chemical Synthesis”, MEXT, Japan (to H.N.). A.M. acknowledges a Grant-in-Aid for JSPS fellows (25 4305) and IGER program at NU. B.R.K. thanks the UK EPSRC for financial support (EP/J500380/1) and A.E.H.W. thanks the GB Sasakawa Foundation for travel grant 4388.