Reflections on spontaneous asymmetric synthesis by amplifying autocatalysis

Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry

Volumn 1, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 3811-3819

  Gridnev, Ilya D ^a,b   Serafimov, Joerg M ^a   Quiney, Harry ^c   Brown, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; ALKYLATION; CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; DIMERIZATION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZINC COMPOUNDS;

CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMER; MOLECULAR ASYMMETRY;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 0344981496     PISSN: 14770520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b307382n     Document Type: Article

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