[1,2]-Wittig rearrangement from chloromethyl ethers

Tetrahedron

Volumn 62, Issue 42, 2006, Pages 9832-9839

  Gómez, Cecilia ^a   Maciá, Beatriz ^a   Lillo, Victor J ^a   Yus, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

1,2 Wittig rearrangement; Chlorine lithium exchange; Chloromethyl ethers; DTBB catalysed lithiation

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; CHLORINE; ETHER DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WITTIG REARRANGEMENT;

EID: 33748194144     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2006.08.028     Document Type: Article

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