11-13-02 12:12
No 379360
The chinese use a household oven, here is the link to the article, perhaps some one can figure out how to capture it for Rhod's page..
http://nr.stic.gov.tw/ejournal/ChiChemSo
I believe that the large excess of NaBH4 is because they keep trying to do it on a substrate without any liquid, ie: dry conditions... it would probablly work better on a substrate in a liquid suspension...
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(Chief Bee)
11-13-02 12:46
No 379365
It is available in PDF from the homepage of J. Chin. Chem. Soc. too.
http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~ccswww/zj-OR-1
(Old P2P Cook)
11-13-02 20:13
No 379510
it would probablly work better on a substrate in a liquid suspension...
And it would probably work even better in methanol at room temperature.
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(Hive Addict)
11-14-02 10:37
No 379656
Thx! I couldn't get that stupid quicktime plugin to give me more that one page...
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(Hive Bee)
11-16-02 17:31
No 380368
doing similar reactions (reductive aminations of ketones) using this system on clay, or zeolit supports in a microwave.
Anyway the chemist would place a bowl filled with dry ice/alcohol slush on top of the beaker while the mix was being microwaves when dealing more volitile amines to recondense them.