Chapter 14 The synthesis of (≠)-strychnine via a cobalt-mediated [2 + 2 + 2]cycloaddition

Strategies and Tactics in Organic Synthesis

Volumn 4, Issue C, 2004, Pages 365-405

  Vollhardt, K Peter C ^a   Eichberg, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b US House of Representatives   (United States)

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