Synthesis of polysubstituted N-H pyrroles from vinyl azides and 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 313-316

  Chiba, Shunsuke ^a   Wang, Yi Feng ^a   Lapointe, Guillaume ^a,b   Narasaka, Koichi ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 38749150358     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol702727j     Document Type: Article

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