Ab initio and density functional theory evidence on the rate-limiting step in the Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction

Organic Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 4873-4876

  Roy, Dipankar ^a   Sunoj, Raghavan B ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

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EID: 36349022163     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol702211d     Document Type: Article

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