• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.361-364
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• 2007

A one-pot Beckmann rearrangement for the preparation of amides from ketones is described using the silica sulfuric acid under Microwave irradiation. Advantages of this method are regioselectivity with high yields in a simple operation and short reaction time, in which the mole ratio of acid and ketone was 1:2 and it should be greener than the currently used systems.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.52 no.4
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• pp.454-456
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• 2008

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.42-45
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• 1979

The experimental procedures of Beckmann rearrangement mostly involve the use of vigorous conditions such as strongly acidic reagents (conc. HCl, $H_2SO_4$, $PCl_5$, etc.) or elevated temperatures, which frequently cause isomerization of ketooximes prior to rearrangement.We have effected the Beckmann rearrangement on $5{\alpha}$-cholestan-3-one oxime using the carbon tetrachloride-triphenylphosphine reagent under mild, neutral conditions to give 3-aza-A-homo-$5{\alpha}$-cholestan-4-one. This new, mild, facile and rapid general method of Beckmann rearrangement is presented, and compared with the classical (more conventional) Beckmann reagent of polyphosphoric acid.