Nanosized iron- or copper-catalyzed homocoupling of aryl, heteroaryl, benzyl, and alkenyl grignard reagents

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 3861-3874

  Moglie, Yanina ^a   Mascaró, Evangelina ^a   Nador, Fabiana ^a   Vitale, Cristian ^a   Radivoy, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Copper nanoparticles; Grignard reagents; Homocoupling; Iron nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

4,4' DITERTBUTYLBIPHENYL; BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; COPPER; COPPER CHLORIDE; FERROUS CHLORIDE; GRIGNARD REAGENT; IRON; LITHIUM; NANOPARTICLE; TETRAHYDROFURAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STOICHIOMETRY;

EID: 54349086882     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910802238726     Document Type: Article

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