Palladium-catalyzed decarboxylative rearrangements of allyl 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl malonates: direct access to homoallylic esters

Organic Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 4076-4079

  Tardibono Jr , Lawrence P ^a   Patzner, Jerod ^a   Cesarlo, Cara ^a   Miller, Marvin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; METHYLMALONIC ACID; PALLADIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; DECARBOXYLATION; DRUG EFFECT; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

CATALYSIS; CYCLIZATION; DECARBOXYLATION; MALONATES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PALLADIUM;

EID: 70349134351     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol901518g     Document Type: Article

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