Diamine-catalyzed asymmetric Michael additions of aldehydes and ketones to nitrostyrene

Organic Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 3611-3614

  Alexakis, Alexandre ^a   Andrey, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0000220483     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol026543q     Document Type: Article

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