A gold catalyst for carbene-transfer reactions from ethyl diazoacetate

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 44, Issue 33, 2005, Pages 5284-5288

  Fructos, Manuel R ^b   Belderrain, Tomás R ^b   De Frémont, Pierre ^a   Scott, Natalie M ^a   Nolan, Steven P ^a   Díaz Requejo, M Mar ^b   Pérez, Pedro J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

C H activation; Carbenes; Diazo compounds; Gold; Homogeneous catalysis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; AMINES; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BENZENE; CHEMICAL BONDS; GOLD; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OLEFINS; REACTION KINETICS; STYRENE; TOLUENE;

C-H ACTIVATION; CARBENE-TRANSFER; CARBENES; DIAZO COMPOUNDS;

CATALYSIS;

EID: 24044524181     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200501056     Document Type: Article

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