Stereoselective synthesis of the lituarine tricyclic spiroacetal

Organic Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 3861-3863

  Robertson, Jeremy ^a   Meo, Paul ^a   Dallimore, Jonathan W P ^a   Doyle, Bryan M ^a   Hoarau, Christophe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IRCOF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAL DERIVATIVE; LITUARINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CYCLIZATION; OXIDATION KINETICS; REACTION ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

CYCLIZATION; EPOXY COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SPIRO COMPOUNDS;

EID: 7044260852     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0483955     Document Type: Article

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