Harvesting Diels and Alder's garden: Synthetic investigations of intramolecular [4 + 2] cycloadditions

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 464-474

  Fallis, Alex G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETAL DERIVATIVE; ALKADIENE; CYCLOHEXENE DERIVATIVE; FURAN DERIVATIVE; IODINE DERIVATIVE; TAXOID; TAXOL; TRITERPENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL REACTION; CYCLIZATION; DIASTEREOISOMER; DRUG SYNTHESIS; POLYMERIZATION; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032838140     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar970120k     Document Type: Article

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