Rapid organocatalytic aldehyde-aldehyde condensation reactions

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 25, 2007, Pages 4205-4216

  Erkkilä, Anniina ^a   Pihko, Petri M ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aldehydes; Amines; Kinetics; Linear free energy relationships; Synthetic methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548367558     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: 10990690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200700292     Document Type: Article

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