Water is an efficient medium for Wittig reactions employing stabilized ylides and aldehydes

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 46, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 4473-4477

  Dambacher, Jesse ^a   Zhao, Wen ^a   El Batta, Amer ^a   Anness, Robert ^a   Jiang, Changchun ^a   Bergdahl, Mikael ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enoate; Enone; Green chemistry; Wittig reaction; Ylides

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; AMIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; SOLUBILITY; WITTIG REACTION;

EID: 19544381844     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2005.04.105     Document Type: Article

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