Highly enantioselective catalytic conjugate additions to cyclohexadienones

Organic Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 623-625

  Imbos, Rosalinde ^a   Brilman, Mirjan H G ^a   Pineschi, Mauro ^a   Feringa, Ben L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0001146718     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol990707u     Document Type: Article

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