Enantioselective Friedel-Crafts alkylation of indoles with nitroalkenes catalyzed by bifunctional tridentate bis(oxazoline)-Zn(II) complex

Organic Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2115-2118

  Lu, Shao Feng ^a   Du, Da Ming ^a   Xu, Jiaxi ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 33744757023     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol060586f     Document Type: Article

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