Zn-promoted regioselective and sequence-selective one-pot joining reaction of three components: Alkyl iodides, α,β-unsaturated esters (or nitriles), and acylating agents

Organic Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 799-802

  Yamamoto, Yoshimasa ^a   Nakano, Seiji ^a   Maekawa, Hirofumi ^a   Nishiguchi, Ikuzo ^a  

^a NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID ANHYDRIDE; ALKYL GROUP; ESTER DERIVATIVE; IODINE DERIVATIVE; NITRILE; ZINC;

ACYLATION; ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTUM YIELD; REACTION ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 1642326585     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol036506e     Document Type: Article

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