Substituted aziridines by lithiation-electrophile trapping of terminal aziridines

Organic Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1153-1156

  Hodgson, David M ^a   Humphreys, Philip G ^a   Ward, John G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AZIRIDINE DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN; LITHIUM; LITHIUM 2,2,6,6 TETRAMETHYLPIPERIDIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY YIELD; LITHIATION; PROTON TRANSPORT; REACTION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; TRANS ISOMER;

EID: 18244376859     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol050060f     Document Type: Article

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