Unprotected vinyl aziridines: Facile synthesis and cascade transformations

Organic Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 240-243

  Baktharaman, Sivaraj ^a   Afagh, Nicholas ^a   Vandersteen, Adelle ^a   Yudin, Andrei K ^a  

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EID: 74949090496     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol902550q     Document Type: Article

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