Highly diastereoselective addition of lithio vinyl sulfoxides to N-sulfinimines: An entry to enantiopure s-sulfinyl-2-5-cis-dihydropyrroles

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 4775-4778

  Viso, Alma ^a   De La Pradilla, Roberto Fernández ^a   Urena, Mercedes ^a   Colomer, Ignacio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA ORGÁNICA GENERAL   (Spain)

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EID: 60949086481     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol801878f     Document Type: Article

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