Potassium tert-butoxide catalyzed addition of carbonyl derivatives to styrenes

Organic Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 21, 2000, Pages 3285-3287

  Rodriguez, Alain Louis ^a   Bunlaksananusorn, Tanasri ^a   Knochel, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 0001741977     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol000174l     Document Type: Article

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