Stereoselectivity of macrocyclic ring-closing olefin metathesis

Organic Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 2145-2147

  Lee, Choon Woo ^a   Grubbs, Robert H ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENE; LACTONE; RUTHENIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALKENES; CATALYSIS; KINETICS; LACTONES; RUTHENIUM; STEREOISOMERISM; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034643997     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol006059s     Document Type: Article

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