Use of the Vicinal element effect for regiochemical control of quinone substitutions and its implication for convergent mitomycin construction

Organic Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 23, 2001, Pages 3695-3697

  Cox, Amie L ^a   Johnston, Jeffrey N ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENE; MITOMYCIN; QUINONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

ALKENES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MITOMYCIN; QUINONES; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0035891705     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol016625z     Document Type: Article

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