BASF to Present Web Seminar on Reductive Amination Reagents
EVANS CITY, PA, May 15, 2009 -- Continuing its series of on-line seminars on key technologies for the commercial scale synthesis active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), BASF has scheduled a Web-based seminar on June 3 that will focus on reductive amination reagents.
Karl Matos, Ph.D., Research Manager, Inorganics, for BASF in North America, will present the seminar, which is titled "Boron Reagents for Process
Chemistry: Amine Boranes, Excellent Reagents for Direct Reductive Amination."
Two sessions are available:
The first session begins at 12 midnight Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDST), or 9:30 a.m. in India, 12 noon in Singapore, and 1 p.m. Japan and Korea.
The second session begins at 10 a.m. EDST, or 4 p.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST).
Registration for both sessions is available at www.v-workshops.com/pby/basf .
"Direct reductive amination of aldehydes and ketones is a powerful tool for the transformation of carbonyl compounds into structurally diverse amines,"
said Matos. "Amine boranes are effective reagents used to carry out direct reductive aminations. This effectiveness is due to their acid stability, functional group compatibility, solubility and stability in alcohol and water solvents allowing the efficient synthesis of primary, secondary and tertiary amines. One advantage of this process is that the intermediate imine or iminium ion is not isolated prior to reduction, enabling efficient synthesis at commercial scale."
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For more information contact:
John C. Schmidt
BASF Corporation
Tel: (973) 245-6405
E-mail: john.schmidt@basf.com
