Palladium-catalyzed oxidative activation of arylcyclopropanes

Organic Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 5829-5832

  He, Zhi ^a   Yudin, Andrei K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; CYCLOPROPANE DERIVATIVE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; LACTAM; PALLADIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SYNTHESIS;

AMIDES; CATALYSIS; CYCLOPROPANES; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; LACTAMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PALLADIUM;

EID: 33846334815     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol062476e     Document Type: Article

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