A direct and versatile access to α,α-disubstituted 2-pyrrolidinylmethanols by SmI2-mediated reductive coupling

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3021-3023

  Burchak, Olga N ^a   Philouze, Christian ^a   Chavant, Pierre Yves ^a   Py, Sandrine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

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EID: 59949098435     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol800982n     Document Type: Article

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