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SUBMITTER: Cortes I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5990813 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cortés Iván I Kaufman Teodoro S TS Bracca Andrea B J ABJ
Royal Society open science 20180523 5
The use of CeCl<sub>3</sub>·7H<sub>2</sub>O as an efficient and eco-friendly promoter for the convenient synthesis of methoximes derived from aromatic aldehydes and ketones, is reported. The transformations entail the use of equimolar amounts of MeONH<sub>2</sub>·HCl and NaOAc in EtOH at 50°C, and no special precautions are needed with regard to the presence of oxygen. The scope and limitations of the transformation were studied and a reaction mechanism was proposed. ...[more]