Lewis acid-mediated unprecedented ring-opening rearrangement of 2-Aryl-N-tosylazetidines to enantiopure (E)-allylamines

Organic Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 5441-5444

  Ghorai, Manas K ^a   Kumar, Amit ^a   Das, Kalpataru ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

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EID: 38349165658     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol7023218     Document Type: Article

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