Unexpected dimeric products from the amidomethylation of pentasubstituted benzenes

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 4023-4026

  Wiedenfeld, David ^a   Minton, Mark A ^a   Nesterov, Vladimir N ^a   Glass, David R ^a   Montoya, Crystal L ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amidomethylation reactions; Diarylmethanes; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

BENZENE DERIVATIVE;

AMIDOMETHYLATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ISOMER; METHYLATION; SOLID STATE; X RAY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 2342647480     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2004.03.175     Document Type: Article

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