The chemistry of alkylstrontium halide analogues: Barbier-type alkylation of imines with alkyl halides

Chemistry Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 760-761

  Miyoshi, Norikazu ^a   Ikehara, Daitetsu ^a   Kohno, Tadashi ^a   Matsui, Aki ^a   Wada, Makoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

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EID: 23944465433     PISSN: 03667022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1246/cl.2005.760     Document Type: Article

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