Intramolecular anodic olefin coupling reactions: Using competition studies to probe the mechanism of oxidative cyclization reactions

Organic Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1720-1723

  Xu, Hai Chao ^a   Moeller, Kevin D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENE; FREE RADICAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; KINETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

ALKENES; CYCLIZATION; FREE RADICALS; KINETICS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 77951172164     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol100317t     Document Type: Article

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