Direct N-alkylation of amines with alcohols using AlCl3 as a Lewis acid
摘要:
A substitution reaction of amines with alcohols for N-alkylated amines has been developed using inexpensive AlCl3 without any ligand or additive. Either aromatic or aliphatic amines and primary or secondary alcohols perform the AlCl3-mediated reaction smoothly to afford various N-alkylated amines in satisfactory yields. (C) 2014 Zhi-Zhen Huang. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Chinese Chemical Society. All rights reserved.