Tandem semipinacol/Schmidt reaction leading to a versatile and efficient approach to azaquaternary alkaloid skeletons

Organic Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 5271-5273

  Gu, Peiming ^a   Zhao, Yu Ming ^a   Tu, Yong Qiang ^a   Ma, Yufei ^a   Zhang, Fumin ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 33845240745     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol062116r     Document Type: Article

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