A convenient synthesis and the asymmetric hydrogenation of N-phthaloyl dehydroamino acid esters

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3033-3036

  Chen, Jian ^a,b   Liu, Qiang ^a   Zhang, Weicheng ^b   Spinella, Stephen ^b   Lei, Aiwen ^a   Zhang, Xumu ^a,b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ESTER; PHTHALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; RHODIUM; VINYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; HYDROGENATION; STEREOISOMERISM;

AMINO ACIDS; CATALYSIS; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; ESTERS; HYDROGENATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHTHALIC ACIDS; RHODIUM; STEREOISOMERISM; VINYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 52049123156     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol800996j     Document Type: Article

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