Highly efficient, facile, room temperature intermolecular [5 + 2] cycloadthtions catalyzed by cationic rhodium(I): One step to cycloheptenes and their libraries

Organic Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1604-1607

  Wender, Paul A ^a   Sirois, Lauren E ^a   Stemmler, René T ^a   Williams, Travis J ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION; CYCLOHEPTANE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; RHODIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE;

CATALYSIS; CATIONS; CYCLIZATION; CYCLOHEPTANES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; RHODIUM; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES; STEREOISOMERISM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77950192886     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol100337m     Document Type: Article

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