A practical method for the reductive cleavage of the sulfide bond in xanthates

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 33, 1996, Pages 5877-5880

  Liard, Annie ^a   Quiclet Sire, Béatrice ^a   Zard, Samir Z ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE SYNTHÈSE ORGANIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; PEROXIDE; SULFIDE; XANTHIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CYCLIZATION; REDUCTION; SOLUBILITY; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0030581364     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-4039(96)01253-1     Document Type: Article

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