Design, synthesis, and application of chiral nonracemic lithium amide bases in enantioselective deprotonation of epoxides

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 61, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 6108-6113

  Bhuniya, Debnath ^a   DattaGupta, Arpita ^a   Singh, Vinod K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

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EID: 0000803525     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo960244v     Document Type: Article

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