Highly diastereoselective catalytic Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reductions

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 840-843

  Yin, Jingjun ^a   Huffman, Mark A ^a   Conrad, Karen M ^a   Armstrong III, Joseph D ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CATALYSIS; CATALYST SELECTIVITY; CHELATION; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

ENANTIOPURITY; EPHEDRINE; FELKIN-AHN CONTROL; MEERWEIN-PONNDORF- VERLEY (MPV) REDUCTION;

REDUCTION;

ALUMINUM DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; EPHEDRINE DERIVATIVE; KETONE; NITROGEN; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHELATION; ENANTIOMER; MEERWEIN PONNDORF VERLEY REDUCTION; QUANTUM YIELD; RACEMIZATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

AMINES; EPHEDRINE; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; KETONES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; SOLVENTS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 30744473984     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo052121t     Document Type: Article

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