Organometallic reactions in aqueous media. Allylation of aldehydes with diallylmercury or allylmercury bromide

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 3863-3866

  Chan, Tak Hang ^a   Yang, Yang ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; ALLYLMERCURY BROMIDE; DIALLYLMERCURY; MERCURY; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMISTRY; REACTION ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0033553361     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(99)00644-9     Document Type: Article

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