Dehydroxymethylation: an unusual reverse reaction of nucleophilic addition to formaldehyde

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 47, Issue 46, 2006, Pages 8175-8178

  Peng, Lingling ^a   Ma, Ming ^a   Zhang, Xiu ^a   Zhang, Shiwei ^a   Wang, Jianbo ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Dehydroxymethylation; Formaldehyde; Primary alcohol; Retro aldol reaction

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; FORMALDEHYDE;

ARTICLE; METHYLATION;

EID: 33749659324     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2006.09.017     Document Type: Article

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