Sodium phenoxide-phosphine oxides as extremely active Lewis base catalysts for the Mukaiyama aldol reaction with ketones

Organic Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 4527-4530

  Hatano, Manabu ^a   Takagi, Eri ^a   Ishihara, Kazuaki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 35948934624     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol702052r     Document Type: Article

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