Aziridination of activated imines with monocarbonyl iodonium ylides generated from (Z)-(2-acetoxyvinyl)iodonium salts via ester exchange: Stereoselective synthesis of 2-acylaziridines

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3181-3189

  Ochiai, Masahito ^a   Kitagawa, Yutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 ACYLAZIRIDINE DERIVATIVE; AZIRIDINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS; TRANS ISOMER; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0033617424     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo982346m     Document Type: Article

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