Predicting the stereochemistry of diphenylphosphino benzoic acid (DPPBA)-based palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation reactions: A working model

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 747-760

  Trost, Barry M ^a   Machacek, Michelle R ^a   Aponick, Aaron ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ALLYL COMPOUND; BENZAMIDE DERIVATIVE; LIGAND; PALLADIUM; PHOSPHINE DERIVATIVE;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; STEREOISOMERISM;

ALKYLATION; ALLYL COMPOUNDS; BENZAMIDES; CATALYSIS; LIGANDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PALLADIUM; PHOSPHINES; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 33750620556     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar040063c     Document Type: Article

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