A New Ligand Scaffold for Catalytic Asymmetric Alkylzinc Additions to Aldehydes

Organic Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1197-1199

  Wipf, Peter ^a   Wang, Xiaodong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 0000869021     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol025600c     Document Type: Article

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