Facile preparation of 1,2-diketones

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2164-2171

  Nowak, Pawel ^a   Malwitz, David ^a   Cole, Derek C ^a  

^a WYETH RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

1,2 diketones; Cross benzoin condensation

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIKETONE DERIVATIVE; BENZOIN; DIKETONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 77953713883     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910903219575     Document Type: Article

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