Asymmetric Friedel-Crafts addition of indoles to N-sulfonyl aldimines: A simple approach to optically active 3-indolyl-methanamine derivatives

Organic Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1621-1624

  Jia, Yi Xia ^a   Xie, Jian Hua ^a   Duan, Hai Feng ^a   Wang, Li Xin ^a   Zhou, Qi Lin ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 33646459617     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0602001     Document Type: Article

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