α-arylation of 3-aryloxindoles

Organic Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2306-2309

  Mai, Cheng Kang ^a   Sammons, Matthew F ^a   Sammakia, Tarek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOLE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; PALLADIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

CATALYSIS; INDOLES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PALLADIUM; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 77952357159     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol100666v     Document Type: Article

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