A new class of ammonium ylid for [2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement reactions: ene-endo-spiro ylids

Organic Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2075-2078

  Roberts, Edward ^b   Sançon, Julien P ^a   Sweeney, J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; AZEPINE DERIVATIVE; INDOLIZIDINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; SPIRO COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIASTEREOISOMER; REACTION ANALYSIS;

ALKALOIDS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; STEMONACEAE;

EID: 19544370892     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol050691+     Document Type: Article

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