Facile, novel methodology for the synthesis of spiro[pyrrolidin-3,3'- oxindoles]: Catalyzed ring expansion reactions of cyclopropanes by aldimines

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3186-3189

  Alper, Phil B ^a   Meyers, Christiane ^a   Lerchner, Andreas ^a   Siegel, Dionicio R ^b   Carreira, Erick M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Cyclopropanes; Nucleophilic additions; Ring expansions; Spiro compounds

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; CYCLOPROPANE; PYRROLIDINE DERIVATIVE;

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

EID: 0033517689     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19991102)38:21<3186::AID-ANIE3186>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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