A new approach for the chemoselective debromination of chiral bromohydrins. Toward the development of a very general approach to enantiopure α-unsubstituted β-hydroxy acids

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 65, Issue 20, 2000, Pages 6752-6755

  Wang, Ying Chuan ^a   Yan, Tu Hsin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA UNSUBSTITUTED BETA HYDROXY ACID DERIVATIVE; BROMINE DERIVATIVE; BROMOHYDRIN DERIVATIVE; HYDROXYACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; DEBROMINATION; ENANTIOMER; HYDROLYSIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0034613124     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo000124u     Document Type: Article

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