Selective mono-N-alkylation of 3-amino alcohols via chelation to 9-BBN

Organic Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 3549-3551

  Bar Haim, Galia ^a   Kol, Moshe ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOALCOHOL;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; CHELATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; QUANTUM YIELD; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 6444228154     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol048554k     Document Type: Article

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