Highly diastereoselective Csp3 -Csp 2 Negishi cross-coupling with 1,2-, 1,3- and 1,4-substituted cycloalkylzinc compounds

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-130

  Thaler, Tobias ^a   Haag, Benjamin ^a   Gavryushin, Andrei ^a   Schober, Katrin ^b   Hartmann, Evelyn ^b   Gschwind, Ruth M ^b   Zipse, Hendrik ^a   Mayer, Peter ^a   Knochel, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CYCLOALKANE DERIVATIVE; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; STEREOISOMERISM; THERMODYNAMICS;

CATALYSIS; CYCLOPARAFFINS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; STEREOISOMERISM; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMODYNAMICS; ZINC;

EID: 76249130540     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.505     Document Type: Article

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