Unusual mechanistic course of some NHC-mediated transesterifications

Organic Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1643-1646

  Pignataro, Luca ^a   Papalia, Teresa ^b   Slawin, Alexandra M Z ^c   Goldup, Stephen M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CARBENE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; METHANE; VINYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ESTERIFICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESTERIFICATION; ETHANOL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METHANE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; VINYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 64349083101     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol900257t     Document Type: Article

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