The highly enantioselective addition of indoles to N-acyl imines with use of a chiral phosphoric acid catalyst

Organic Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2609-2611

  Rowland, Gerald B ^a   Rowland, Emily B ^a   Liang, Yuxue ^a   Perman, Jason A ^a   Antilla, Jon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 34547487981     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0703579     Document Type: Article

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