Catalytic asymmetric oxa-Michael-Michael cascade for facile construction of chiral chromans via an aminal intermediate

Organic Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1627-1630

  Zu, Liansuo ^a   Zhang, Shilei ^a   Xie, Hexin ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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EID: 64349108310     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol9003433     Document Type: Article

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