Facile regio- and stereoselective carbon-carbon coupling of phenol derivatives with aryl aziridines

Organic Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2627-2630

  Pineschi, Mauro ^a   Bertolini, Ferruccio ^a   Crotti, Paolo ^a   Macchia, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

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EID: 33745540080     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol060822m     Document Type: Article

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