Lewis acid catalyzed addition of pyrazoles to alkynes: Selective synthesis of double and single addition products

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 23, 2008, Pages 4035-4040

  Tsuchimoto, Teruhisa ^a   Aoki, Kazuki ^a   Wagatsuma, Tatsuya ^a   Suzuki, Yuichi ^a  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Addition reactions; Alkynes; Nitrogen heterocycles; Regioselectivity; Synthetic methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849133819     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: 10990690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200800353     Document Type: Article

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