| Reductive Amination of Aldehydes with Sodium  		Borohydride and Lithium Aluminum Hydride in the Presence of Lithium  		Perchlorate M.R. Saidia,*, R. Stan Brownb,*  		and A. Ziyaei-Halimjania bDepartment of Chemistry, Queen�s  		University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada aDepartment of Chemistry, Department of  		Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology,  P.O. Box 11365-9516 Tehran, Iran (Received 6 October 2006,  		Accepted 12 November 2006) A one-pot high  		yielding reductive amination of aldehydes with primary and secondary  		amines using LiClO4/NaBH4 and LiClO4/LiAlH4  		as reducing agents in diethyl ether is described. Keywords: Reductive amination, Sodium borohydride,  		Lithium aluminum hydride, Lithium perchlorate, Aldehyde |