Highly enantioselective friedel-crafts alkylations of indoles with simple enones catalyzed by zirconium(IV)-BINOL complexes

Organic Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2601-2604

  Blay, Gonzalo ^a   Fernández, Isabel ^a   Pedro, José R ^a   Vila, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

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EID: 34547182312     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0710820     Document Type: Article

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