Application of a three-carbon ring expansion process to bridged bicyclic systems

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2053-2056

  Mi, Baoyu ^a   Maleczka Jr , Robert E ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicyclic aliphatic compounds; Molecular modeling; Ring transformations

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC COMPOUND; BICYCLO COMPOUND; CARBON;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR MODEL;

EID: 0033548616     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(99)00163-X     Document Type: Article

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