On the synthesis and reactivity of enantiopure azetidines

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 27, 2007, Pages 4517-4524

  Banide, Emilie ^a   De Talancé, Vincent Lemau ^a   Schmidt, Grégory ^a   Lubin, Hodney ^a   Comesse, Sébastien ^a,b   Dechoux, Luc ^a   Hamon, Louis ^a   Kadouri Puchot, Catherine ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU HAVRE   (France)

Author keywords

Amino alcohols; Azetidines; Bromocyclization; Cyclization; Vinyl bromide; Vinylsilane

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748832396     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: 10990690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200700283     Document Type: Article

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