2,3-Wittig rearrangement by partial reduction of diallyl acetals with SmI2 in acetonitrile

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 29, 1998, Pages 5229-5232

  Hioki, Kazuhito ^a   Kono, Kazuhiro ^a   Tani, Shohei ^a   Kunishima, Munetaka ^a  

^a KOBE GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetals; Rearrangement; Reduction; Samarium and compounds

Indexed keywords

ACETAL; ACETONITRILE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; REACTION ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032537711     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(98)01028-4     Document Type: Article

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