Construction of three contiguous tertiary stereocenters from aziridines in one step

Organic Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 4677-4680

  Blyumin, Evgeniy V ^a   Gallon, Helen J ^a   Yudin, Andrei K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 36348932125     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol7015302     Document Type: Article

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