Chirality transfer in the aza-[2,3]-Wittig sigmatropic rearrangement

Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry

Volumn 3, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 3734-3748

  Anderson, James C ^a   Gair Ford, J ^b   Whiting, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTERS; NEGATIVE IONS; OLEFINS;

ALANINES; CHIRALITY TRANSFER; VALINE;

AMINES;

AMINO ACID; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; SILANE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACIDS; AZA COMPOUNDS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SILANES; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 27744570350     PISSN: 14770520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b510756c     Document Type: Article

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