A novel rearrangement of arylvinylidenecyclopropanes to naphthalene derivatives catalyzed by Lewis acids or Brønsted acids

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Volumn , Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1869-1872

  Xu, Guang Cai ^a   Ma, Ming ^a   Liu, Le Ping ^b   Shi, Min ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Arylvinylidenecyclopropanes; Br nsted acids; Lewis acids; Naphthalene derivatives; Rearrangement

Indexed keywords

2 METHYL 1,4 DIPHENYLNAPHTHALENE; ARYLVINYLIDENECYCLOPROPANE; CYCLOPROPANE DERIVATIVE; DIPHENYLVINYLIDENECYCLOPROPANE; LEWIS ACID; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 23644457608     PISSN: 09365214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-871565     Document Type: Article

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