Concomitant morpholine ring contraction and pyridine lithiation in 4-morpholinopyridine: straightforward access to N-pyridyl oxazolidines

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 49, Issue 32, 2008, Pages 4717-4719

  Gros, Philippe C ^a   Doudouh, Abdelhatif ^a   Woltermann, Christopher ^b  

^a NANCY UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b FMC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Lithiation; Morpholinopyridine; Oxazolidine; Ring contraction

Indexed keywords

4 MORPHOLINOPYRIDINE; N PYRIDYL OXAZOLINIDINE; OXAZOLE DERIVATIVE; PYRIDINE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; LITHIATION; METALLATION; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 45849140498     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2008.05.127     Document Type: Article

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