Copper-catalyzed enantioselective conjugate addition of Grignard reagents to acyclic enones

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 126, Issue 40, 2004, Pages 12784-12785

  López, Fernando ^a   Harutyunyan, Syuzanna R ^a   Minnaard, Adriaan J ^a   Feringa, Ben L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHALCONE; COPPER; GRIGNARD REAGENT; REAGENT; SILICON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; POLARIMETRY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 5644222576     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja046632t     Document Type: Article

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25. See Supporting Information for more details.
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