Catalytic enantioselective addition of diorganozinc reagents to vinyl sulfones

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2315-2318

  Desrosiers, Jean Nicolas ^a   Bechara, William S ^a   Charette, André B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVINYL SULFONE; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; SULFONE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; STEREOISOMERISM;

CATALYSIS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; STEREOISOMERISM; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SULFONES; ZINC;

EID: 52649115924     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol800747v     Document Type: Article

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