Enantioselective 1,4-addition of unmodified ketone catalyzed by a bimetallic Zn-Zn-linked-binol complex

Organic Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 26, 2001, Pages 4251-4254

  Kumagai, Naoya ^a   Matsunaga, Shigeki ^a   Shibasaki, Masakatsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 0001313530     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol016981h     Document Type: Article

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