Regiospecific decarboxylative allylation of nitriles

Organic Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 5630-5633

  Recio III, Antonio ^a   Tunge, Jon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLYL COMPOUND; NITRILE; PALLADIUM;

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

ALLYL COMPOUNDS; CATALYSIS; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITRILES; PALLADIUM;

EID: 72849153660     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol902065p     Document Type: Article

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