Chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed desymmetrization of meso-aziridines with functionalized mercaptans

Organic Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 5186-5189

  Larson, Shawn E ^a   Baso, Juan C ^a   Li, Guilong ^a   Antilla, Jon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZIRIDINE DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORIC ACID; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

AZIRIDINES; CATALYSIS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOSPHORIC ACIDS; STEREOISOMERISM; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 70749161701     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol902123h     Document Type: Article

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