Indium promoted reductive homocoupling of alkyl and aryl halides

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 51, 1998, Pages 9557-9558

  Ranu, Brindaban C ^a   Dutta, Pinak ^a   Sarkar, Arunkanti ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Bialkyl; Biaryl; Coupling reaction; Indium

Indexed keywords

ALKYL GROUP; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; INDIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; REACTION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0032542198     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(98)02123-6     Document Type: Article

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