Desulfurization of sultones with simultaneous methylenation

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 3841-3844

  Metz, Peter ^a   Seng, Dieter ^a   Plietker, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENE; SULTONE;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; OXIDATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0029994004     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-4039(96)00728-9     Document Type: Article

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