Bismuth-catalyzed benzylic oxidations with tert-butyl hydroperoxide

Organic Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 4549-4552

  Bonvin, Yannick ^a   Callens, Emmanuel ^a   Larrosa, Igor ^a   Henderson, David A ^a   Oldham, James ^a   Burton, Andrew J ^b   Barrett, Anthony G M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZYL DERIVATIVE; BISMUTH; TERT BUTYL HYDROPEROXIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN BOND; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

BENZYL COMPOUNDS; BISMUTH; CATALYSIS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; TERT-BUTYLHYDROPEROXIDE;

EID: 27144547547     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol051765k     Document Type: Article

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