Reaction of arylphosphines with singlet oxygen: Intra- vs intermolecular oxidation

Organic Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 23, 2001, Pages 3719-3722

  Gao, Ruomei ^a   Ho, David G ^a   Dong, Timothy ^a,b   Khuu, Daisy ^a   Franco, Nestor ^a   Sezer, Oemer ^a   Selke, Matthias ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Alhambra Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL; PHOSPHINE DERIVATIVE; SINGLET OXYGEN; SOLVENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

ALGORITHMS; FREE RADICALS; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOSPHINES; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SINGLET OXYGEN; SOLVENTS;

EID: 0035891657     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol010195v     Document Type: Article

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