Highly enantioselective catalytic conjugate addition and tandem conjugate addition-aldol reactions of organozinc reagents

Angewandte Chemie (International Edition in English)

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 2620-2623

  Feringa, Ben L ^a   Pineschi, Mauro ^a,b   Arnold, Leggy A ^a   Imbos, Rosalinde ^a   De Vries, André H M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

1,4 additions; Aldol reactions; Asymmetric synthesis; C C coupling; Homogeneous catalysis; Zinc

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031573812     PISSN: 05700833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.199726201     Document Type: Article

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