Derailing the Wacker oxidation: Development of a palladium-catalyzed amidation reaction

Organic Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 25-28

  Gaunt, Matthew J ^a   Spencer, Jonathan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; AMINO ACID; AMPHIBIAN VENOM; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; KETONE; PALLADIUM; PERHYDROHISTRIONICOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNTHESIS;

AMIDES; AMINO ACIDS; AMPHIBIAN VENOMS; CARBAMATES; CATALYSIS; KETONES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PALLADIUM; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0035843310     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0066882     Document Type: Article

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