Facile and Racemization-Free Conversion of Chiral Nitriles into Pyridine Derivatives

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 68, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 9221-9225

  Heller, Barbara ^a   Sundermann, Bernd ^b   Fischer, Christine ^a   You, Jingsong ^a   Chen, Waiqiang ^a   Drexler, Hans Joachim ^a   Knochel, Paul ^c   Bonrath, Werner ^d   Gutnov, Andrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b GRÜNENTHAL GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; COBALT; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

CYCLOCOTRIMERIZATION; POLYSUBSTITUTED MOIETIES;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

NITRILE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMER; PHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0345686500     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo030206t     Document Type: Article

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