Memory of chirality in electron transfer mediated benzylic umpolung reactions of arene - Cr(CO)3 complexes

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1620-1623

  Schmalz, Hans Günther ^a   De Koning, Charles B ^b   Bernicke, Dirk ^a   Siegel, Stephan ^a   Pfletschinger, Anja ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Arene complexes; Chirality transfer; Chromium; Electron transfer; Umpolung

Indexed keywords

BENZILIC ACID; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CHROMIUM DERIVATIVE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0033153536     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19990601)38:11<1620::AID-ANIE1620>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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