Aerobic intramolecular oxidative amination of alkenes catalyzed by NHC-coordinated palladium complexes

Organic Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2257-2260

  Rogers, Michelle M ^a   Wendlandt, Johanna E ^a   Guzei, Ilia A ^a   Stahl, Shannon S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM;

AMINATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

ALKENES; AMINATION; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CATALYSIS; CYCLIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM;

EID: 33745725828     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol060327q     Document Type: Article

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