Lewis Acid-Promoted Carbon - Carbon Bond Cleavage of Aziridines: Divergent Cycloaddition Pathways of the Derived Ylides

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 126, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2294-2295

  Pohlhaus, Patrick D ^a   Bowman, Roy K ^a   Johnson, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZIRIDINE DERIVATIVE; CARBON; HALIDE; LEWIS ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YLIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; CYCLOADDITION; FRIEDEL CRAFTS REACTION; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 1542375026     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja0397963     Document Type: Article

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