Facile insertion reaction of arynes into carbon-carbon σ-bonds

Chemical Communications

Volumn , Issue 26, 2005, Pages 3292-3294

  Yoshida, Hiroto ^a   Watanabe, Masahiko ^a   Ohshita, Joji ^a   Kunai, Atsutaka ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ALKYNE DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; ARYNE DERIVATIVE; CARBON; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DEGRADATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

EID: 22544456259     PISSN: 13597345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b505392g     Document Type: Article

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