Nitrone cycloadditions to 1,2-diphenylcyclopropenes and subsequent transformations of the isoxazolidine cycloadducts

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2396-2399

  Diev, Vyacheslav V ^a   Stetsenko, Oksana N ^a   Tung, Tran Q ^a   Kopf, Jürgen ^b   Kostikov, Rafael R ^a   Molchanov, Alexander P ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOADDITION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM YIELD;

CYCLOPROPENES; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR GROUP; ISOXAZOLIDINE CYCLOADDUCTS; SUBSEQUENT TRANSFORMATIONS;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ALKENE DERIVATIVE; AZIRIDINE DERIVATIVE; ISOXAZOLIDINE DERIVATIVE; NITRONE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CYCLOADDITION;

EID: 41849109877     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo702379d     Document Type: Article

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