Enantioselective organocatalytic transfer hydrogenation reactions using Hantzsch esters

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1327-1339

  Ouellet, Stéphane G ^b   Walji, Abbas M ^a   Macmillan, David W C ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MERCK FROSST CENTRE FOR THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMINE; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AMINATION; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGENATION; REVIEW; STEREOISOMERISM;

AMINATION; CATALYSIS; HYDROGENATION; IMINES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 38049089797     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar7001864     Document Type: Review

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