Facile preparation of various heteroaromatic compounds via azatitanacyclopentadiene intermediates

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 127, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 7474-7479

  Suzuki, Daisuke ^a   Nobe, Youhei ^a   Watai, Yuko ^a   Tanaka, Ryoichi ^a   Takayama, Yuuki ^a   Sato, Fumie ^a   Urabe, Hirokazu ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; NITRILE RESINS; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

ELECTROPHILES; FURANS; PYRROLES; REGIOSELECTIVITY;

ACETYLENE;

ACETYLENE; ACETYLENE DERIVATIVE; ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; AZATITANACYCLOPENTADIENE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPENTADIENE DERIVATIVE; FURAN DERIVATIVE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; NITRILE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIDYLTITANIUM DERIVATIVE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; SULFONYLACETYLENE; TITANIUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMER; ISOMER; OPTICAL ROTATION; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 19744370350     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja0502730     Document Type: Article

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