N-heterocyclic carbenes as versatile nucleophilic catalysts for transesterification/acylation reactions

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Volumn 4, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 3583-3586

  Grasa, Gabriela A ^a   Kissling, Rebecca M ^a   Nolan, Steven P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

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EID: 0000926963     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0264760     Document Type: Article

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