Samarium-induced alkyl halide mediated reductive coupling of ketones

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 20, 2000, Pages 3793-3796

  Ghatak, Anjan ^a   Becker, Frederick F ^a   Banik, Bimal K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkyl halides; Aromatic ketones; Reductive coupling; Samarium

Indexed keywords

HALIDE; KETONE; SAMARIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; COUPLING FACTOR; DERIVATIZATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EXPERIMENTATION; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034697552     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(00)00510-4     Document Type: Article

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