Two syntheses of (-)-kainic acid via highly stereoselective zinc-ene cyclizations

Organic Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 3825-3828

  Chalker, Justin M ^a,b   Yang, Ao ^a   Deng, Kai ^a,c   Cohen, Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; KAINIC ACID; PALLADIUM; SULFONE; ZINC DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

CHLORIDES; CYCLIZATION; KAINIC ACID; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PALLADIUM; STEREOISOMERISM; SULFONES; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 34848876647     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol701733u     Document Type: Article

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