A one-pot asymmetric sequential animation-alkylation of aldehydes: Expedient synthesis of aliphatic chiral amines

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 6, 2007, Pages 959-964

  Wakchaure, Vijay N ^a   Mohanty, Rashmi R ^a   Shaikh, Ahson J ^a   Nugent, Thomas C ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amines; Cuprates (R) or (S) (methylbenzyl)amine; Enantioenriched amines; In situ aldimine formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250657458     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: 10990690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200600781     Document Type: Article

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