Organometallic reactions in aqueous media. Indium-mediated allylation of sulfonimines

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 47, 1998, Pages 8605-8608

  Chan, Tak Hang ^a   Lu, Wenshuo ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMIDE; IMINE; INDIUM; ORGANIC SOLVENT; SULFONAMIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0032547971     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(98)01926-1     Document Type: Article

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