Stereochemical control in the reduction of 2-chromanols

Organic Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 4711-4714

  Li, Kelin ^a   Vanka, Kumar ^a   Thompson, Ward H ^a   Tunge, Jon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; CHROMAN DERIVATIVE; CINNAMIC ACID; CINNAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; SILANE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; CATALYSIS; CHROMANS; CINNAMATES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENOLS; SILANES; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 33750355952     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol061727g     Document Type: Article

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