psycosmo (Newbee)
05-06-02 23:08
No 305687
      RCOOH --> RCNR2  Bookmark   

Synthesis Communications, Oct, 1978 p. 766
Reactions of Sodium Borohydride in Acidic Media; N-alkylation of aliphatic secondary amines with carboxylic acids
By Gribble, Jasinsky, Pellicone, Panetta @ Dartmouth College
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Uses NaBH4 to repace the OOH if COOH with a secondary amine. Seemed like it might be useful if it hasnt been posted here before...
 
 
 
 
    Rhodium
(Chief Bee)
05-07-02 05:37
No 305745
      N-alkylations with NaBH4/RCOOH  Bookmark   

There is some info about that to be found in ../rhodium/pdf /nabh4.carboxylic.acids.pdf