Transition metal migration upon attempting the Wolff rearrangement of an Ir(III) five-membered metallacycle

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 129, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 6092-6093

  Gómez, Margarita ^a   Paneque, Margarita ^a   Poveda, Manuel L ^a   Alvarez, Eleuterio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES QUÍMICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; EPOXIDATION; METALLATION; MICROANALYSIS; OZONOLYSIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; WOLFF REARRANGEMENT; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34249054457     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja070360n     Document Type: Article

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