Addition of N-heterocyclic carbenes to imines: phenoxide assisted deprotonation of an imidazolium moiety and generation of Breslow intermediates derived from imines

Organic Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 245-247

  Simonovic, Stevan ^a   Frison, Jean Cédric ^a   Koyuncu, Hasan ^a   Whitwood, Adrian C ^a   Douthwaite, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBENE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; IMINE; METHANE; OXIDE; PROTON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; IMIDAZOLES; IMINES; METHANE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDES; PROTONS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 59649118413     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol802572n     Document Type: Article

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