Dual activation in a homolytic coupling reaction promoted by an enantioselective dinuclear vanadium(IV) catalyst

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1841-1844

  Somei, Hidenori ^a   Asano, Yasuaki ^a   Yoshida, Tomokazu ^a   Takizawa, Shinobu ^a   Yamataka, Hiroshi ^a   Sasai, Hiroaki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enantioselective catalyst

Indexed keywords

2 NAPHTHOL; VANADIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; OXIDATION;

EID: 1242316318     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2004.01.007     Document Type: Article

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