Novel acetoxylation and C-C coupling reactions at unactivated positions in α-amino acid derivatives

Organic Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 3391-3394

  Reddy, B V Subba ^a   Reddy, Leleti Rajender ^a   Corey, E J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 AMINOQUINOLINE; 8-AMINOQUINOLINE; AMINO ACID; AMINOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACIDS; AMINOQUINOLINES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 33746872900     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol061389j     Document Type: Article

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