Conformational memory in enantioselective radical reductions and a new radical clock reaction

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 122, Issue 39, 2000, Pages 9386-9390

  Buckmelter, Alexandre J ^a   Kim, Angie I ^a   Rychnovsky, Scott D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; RADICAL; TETRAHYDROPYRAN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHIRALITY; CONFORMATION; DECARBOXYLATION; ENANTIOMER; OPTICAL ROTATION; PROTON TRANSPORT; REDUCTION; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0034605472     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja002068k     Document Type: Article

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