The role of bent acyclic allene gold complexes in axis-to-center chirality transfers

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 47, Issue 39, 2008, Pages 7534-7538

  Gandon, Vincent ^a   Lemière, Gilles ^a   Hours, Alexandra ^a   Fensterbank, Louis ^a   Malacria, Max ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Chimie Organique UMR 7611   (France)

Author keywords

Allenes; Cycloisomerization; Density functional calculations; Gold; Homogeneous catalysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749142736     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200802332     Document Type: Article

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