Bidirectional metalation of hydrobenzoin: Direct access to new chiral ligands and auxiliaries

Organic Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1903-1906

  Cho, Inhee ^a   Meimetis, Labros ^a   Britton, Robert ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HYDROBENZOIN; LIGAND;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

BENZOIN; CATALYSIS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 65549137614     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol900323u     Document Type: Article

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