Radical deoxygenation of xanthates and related functional groups with new minimalist N-heterocyclic carbene boranes

Organic Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3002-3005

  Ueng, Shau Hua ^a   Fensterbank, Louis ^b   Lacôte, Emmanuel ^b   Malacria, Max ^b   Curran, Dennis P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORANE DERIVATIVE; CARBENE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FREE RADICAL; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; METHANE; OXYGEN; THIOKETONE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; STEREOISOMERISM;

BORANES; FREE RADICALS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; METHANE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXYGEN; STEREOISOMERISM; THIONES;

EID: 77954095771     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol101015m     Document Type: Article

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