Oxonitriles: A Grignard addition-acylation route to enamides

Organic Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 4903-4906

  Fleming, Fraser F ^a   Wei, Guoqing ^a   Zhang, Zhiyu ^a   Steward, Omar W ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS; NITRILE;

ACYLATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

ACYLATION; AMIDES; CATALYSIS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITRILES;

EID: 33750337500     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0619765     Document Type: Article

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