A general method for the alkaline cleavage of enolisable ketones

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 33, 1999, Pages 6077-6078

  Žabjek, Alenka ^a   Petrič, Andrej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC CARBOXYLIC ACID; KETONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; OXIDATION;

EID: 0033551762     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(99)01262-9     Document Type: Article

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