Sequential Birch reduction-allylation and Cope rearrangement of o-anisic acid derivatives

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 44, 2004, Pages 8183-8185

  Malachowski, William P ^a   Banerji, Marisha ^a  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

3,3 Sigmatropic rearrangement; Birch reduction allylation; Cope rearrangement; Quaternary carbon synthesis

Indexed keywords

ANISIC ACID; CYCLOALKENE;

ALLYLATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIRCH REDUCTION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COPE REARRANGEMENT; HYDROLYSIS KINETICS;

EID: 4744343496     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2004.09.025     Document Type: Article

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