The benzil rearrangement reaction: Trapping of a hitherto minor product and its application to the development of a selective cyanide anion indicator

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-75

  Sessler, Jonathan L ^a   Cho, Dong Gyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANION; BENZIL; CYANIDE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PHENYLGLYOXAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE;

ANIONS; CYANIDES; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHENYLGLYOXAL;

EID: 38349129171     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol7027306     Document Type: Article

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