Enantioselective iridium-catalyzed allylic amination of ammonia and convenient ammonia surrogates

Organic Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 3949-3952

  Pouy, Mark J ^b   Leitner, Andreas ^b   Weix, Daniel J ^b   Ueno, Satoshi ^b   Hartwig, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 35048813934     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol701562p     Document Type: Article

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