Highly diastereoselective epoxidation of ketene dithioacetal dioxides: A new approach to the asymmetric synthesis of α-amino amides

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 7128-7129

  Agganval, Varinder K ^a   Barrell, Juliet K ^a   Worrall, Julia M ^a   Alexander, Rikki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UCB PHARMA   (Belgium)

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EID: 0000137347     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo9814896     Document Type: Article

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