Palladium-Catalyzed highly diastereoselective oxidative cascade cyclization reactions

Organic Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1911-1914

  Yip, Kai Tai ^a   Zhu, Nian Yong ^a   Yang, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 66149101004     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol900355h     Document Type: Article

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