Concise synthesis of 2,6-disubstituted morpholines by cyclization of epoxy alcohols

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2107-2113

  Albanese, Domenico ^a   Salsa, Matteo ^a   Landini, Dario ^a   Lupi, Vittoria ^a   Penso, Michele ^b  

^a Dipartimento di Chimica Organica e Industriale   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cyclization; Epoxy alcohols; Morpholines; Phase transfer catalysis; Sulfonamides

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250648937     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: 10990690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200700011     Document Type: Article

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