A unified strategy for exceptionally high diastereoselectivity in the photochemical ring closure of chiral diarylethenes

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 48, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 4521-4523

  Yokoyama, Yasushi ^a   Shiozawa, Tatsuya ^a   Tani, Yutaka ^a   Ubukata, Takashi ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diastereoselectivity; Electrocyclization; Photochromism

Indexed keywords

CARBON ATOMS; DIARYLETHENES; DIASTEREOSELECTIVE; DIASTEREOSELECTIVITY; ELECTROCYCLIZATION; RING CLOSURES;

CYCLIZATION; OLEFINS; PHOTOCHROMISM;

STEREOSELECTIVITY;

EID: 70349964344     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200901156     Document Type: Article

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