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/ChiChemSociety/1999/EJ52-1999-509.tif (http://nr.stic.gov.tw/ejournal/ChiChemSociety/1999/EJ52-1999-509.tif)
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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It is available in PDF from the homepage of
J. Chin. Chem. Soc. too.
http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~ccswww/zj-OR-1999-P509.pdf (http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~ccswww/zj-OR-1999-P509.pdf)
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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Thx! I couldn't get that stupid quicktime plugin to give me more that one page...
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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.