Catalytic aza-Wittig cyclizations for heteroaromatic synthesis

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2589-2591

  Marsden, Stephen P ^a   McGonagle, Alison E ^a   McKeever Abbas, Ben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Charter Way   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOXAZOLE DERIVATIVE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SYNTHESIS;

AZA COMPOUNDS; BENZOXAZOLES; CATALYSIS; CYCLIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 48849083221     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol800921n     Document Type: Article

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