A novel example of chiral counteranion induced enantioselective metal catalysis: The importance of ion-pairing in copper-catalyzed olefin aziridination and cyclopropanation

Organic Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 26, 2000, Pages 4165-4168

  Llewellyn, David B ^a   Adamson, Dan ^a   Arndtsen, Bruce A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0000345599     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol000303y     Document Type: Article

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32. -. We thank the reviews for this suggestion.