Tellurium in the 'no-solvent' organic synthesis of allylic alcohols

Tetrahedron

Volumn 53, Issue 36, 1997, Pages 12131-12146

  Xu, Qinyu ^a   Chao, Bin ^a   Wang, Yongmei ^a   Dittmer, Donald C ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALKENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND;

ILEX COOKII;

EID: 0030874730     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4020(97)00547-4     Document Type: Article

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