Palladium-catalysed intramolecular coupling of vinyl or aryl halides and β,γ-unsaturated nitronates

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3131-3135

  Solé, Daniel ^a   Urbaneja, Xavier ^a   Bonjoch, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alkenylation; Arylation; Catalysis; Nitro compounds; Palladium

Indexed keywords

BASE; HALIDE; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; PALLADIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; METHODOLOGY; REACTION ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 1642416676     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2004.02.086     Document Type: Article

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