Dimethylzinc-mediated addition of alkenylzirconocenes to α-keto and α-imino esters

Organic Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 2449-2452

  Wipf, Peter ^a   Stephenson, Corey R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

8 PHENYLMENTHOL; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALKENYL GROUP; ALKYNE; AMINE; ESTER; IMINE; KETONE; MENTHOL; N DIPHENYLPHOSPHINOYLIMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC DERIVATIVE; ZIRCONOCENE;

ADDITION REACTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; HYDROZIRCONATION; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TRANSMETALATION;

EID: 0141854368     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0347141     Document Type: Article

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