The Development of a Facile Tandem Wolff/Cope Rearrangement for the Synthesis of Fused Carbocyclic Skeletons

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 125, Issue 45, 2003, Pages 13624-13625

  Sarpong, Richmond ^a   Su, Julius T ^a   Stoltz, Brian M ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKADIENE; CYCLOHEPTADIENONE; CYCLOPENTANONE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPROPANE; CYCLOPROPANE DERIVATIVE; HYDROCARBON; KETONE; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; PHOTOLYSIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS; TECHNIQUE; ULTRASOUND; WOLFF COPE REARRANGEMENT REACTION;

BICYCLO COMPOUNDS; CYCLOHEPTANES; CYCLOPARAFFINS;

EID: 0242574862     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja037587c     Document Type: Article

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