Carbon-carbon bond formation and pyrrole synthesis via the [3,3] sigmatropic rearrangement of O-vinyl oxime ethers

Organic Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2290-2293

  Wang, Heng Yen ^a   Mueller, Daniel S ^a   Sachwani, Rachna M ^a   Londino, Hannah N ^a   Anderson, Laura L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ETHER DERIVATIVE; OXIME; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

CARBON; CYCLIZATION; ETHERS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIMES; PYRROLES; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 77952364808     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol100659q     Document Type: Article

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