An easy route towards regioselectively difunctionalized cyclens and new cryptands

Fanny Chaux; Franck Denat; Enrique Espinosa; Roger Guilard

doi:10.1039/b612293k

An easy route towards regioselectively difunctionalized cyclens and new cryptands

Chem Commun (Camb). 2006 Dec 28:(48):5054-6. doi: 10.1039/b612293k. Epub 2006 Oct 12.

Authors

Fanny Chaux¹, Franck Denat, Enrique Espinosa, Roger Guilard

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire d'Ingénierie Moléculaire pour la Séparation et les Applications des Gaz, LIMSAG UMR 5633, Université de Bourgogne, 9 Av. Alain Savary BP47870, 21078 Dijon, France.

PMID: 17146525
DOI: 10.1039/b612293k

Abstract

Reductive amination of various aldehydes with cyclen represents a very convenient method for the synthesis of a wide range of 1,7-difunctionalized cyclens, as well as new cryptands.