Preparation of tetrasubstituted furans via intramolecular wittig reactions with phosphorus ylides as intermediates

Organic Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3066-3069

  Kao, Tzu Ting ^a   Syu, Siang En ^a   Jhang, Yi Wun ^a   Lin, Wenwei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FURAN DERIVATIVE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

FURANS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 77954097756     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol101080q     Document Type: Article

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