Michael reactions of titanium enolates of glycolic acid derivatives with the Weinreb and morpholine amides of acrylic acid

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1578-1581

  Olivella, Anna ^a   Rodríguez Escrich, Carles ^a   Urpí, Fèlix ^a   Vilarrasa, Jaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; AMIDES; DERIVATIVES; ORGANIC ACIDS; REACTION KINETICS;

CHIRAL FRAGMENTS; MICHAEL ACCEPTORS; MICHAEL REACTIONS;

TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

ACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; AMIDE; GLYCOLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE; OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVE; TITANIUM;

ADDITION REACTION; ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CONJUGATION; MICHAEL ADDITION; REDUCTION;

ACRYLATES; AMIDES; GLYCOLATES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORPHOLINES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TITANIUM;

EID: 39349110573     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo702240n     Document Type: Article

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