A versatile direct approach to ortho-substituted azobenzenes from benzotriazoles

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1400-1403

  Micó, Xavier Àlvarez ^a   Ziegler, Thomas ^a   Subramanian, Lakshiminarayanapuram R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Azo compounds; Benzotriazoles; Diastereoselectivity; Ortho coupling; Solvent effects

Indexed keywords

REACTION KINETICS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLVENTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

AZOBENZENES; BENZOTRIAZOLES; PARA SUBSTITUTION;

BENZENE;

AZOBENZENE DERIVATIVE; BENZOTRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

EID: 4544316563     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200352782     Document Type: Article

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