Radical cyclisations promoted by dimanganese decacarbonyl: A new and flexible approach to 5-membered N-heterocycles

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 33, 1999, Pages 6095-6098

  Gilbert, Bruce C ^a   Kalz, Wilhelm ^a   Lindsay, Chris I ^b   McGrail, P Terry ^b   Parsons, Andrew F ^a   Whittaker, David T E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b AKZO NOBEL CENTRAL RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cyclisation; Manganese and compounds; Radicals and radical reactions

Indexed keywords

CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; MANGANESE DERIVATIVE; PYRROLIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CYCLIZATION; PROTON TRANSPORT; REACTION ANALYSIS; REDUCTION;

EID: 0033551726     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(99)01271-X     Document Type: Article

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