Racemic and asymmetric cobalt-catalysed reductive aldol couplings of α,β-unsaturated amides with ketones

Tetrahedron

Volumn 64, Issue 33, 2008, Pages 7729-7740

  Lumby, Ralph J R ^a   Joensuu, Pekka M ^a   Lam, Hon Wai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; COBALT; DIETHYLZINC; KETONE DERIVATIVE; OXAZOLIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ALDOL REACTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHIRALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 46149087013     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2008.06.022     Document Type: Article

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