Iron(ii) triflate as an efficient catalyst for the imination of sulfoxides

Organic Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2429-2432

  Mancheño, Olga García ^a,b   Dallimore, Jonathan ^a,b   Plant, Andrew ^a,b   Bolm, Carsten ^a,b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROUS ION; IMINE; MESYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SULFOXIDE; SULFUR DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

CATALYSIS; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; IMINES; MESYLATES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SULFOXIDES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 66149176806     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol900660x     Document Type: Article

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