Fluorinated heterocyclic compounds - The first example of an irreversible ring-degenerate rearrangement on five-membered heterocycles by attack of an external bidentate nucleophile

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 5, 2004, Pages 974-980

  Buscemi, Silvestre ^a   Pace, Andrea ^a   Pibiri, Ivana ^a   Vivona, Nicolò ^a   Lanza, Camilla Zaira ^b   Spinelli, Domenico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heterocycles; Nucleophilic substitution; Rearrangements; Ring ring interconversion

Indexed keywords

HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; HYDROXYLAMINE; OXADIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; FLUORINATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; REACTION ANALYSIS; RING CLOSING METATHESIS; RING OPENING; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 3142564005     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200300737     Document Type: Article

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