Facile double-lithiation of a transient urea: Vicarious ortho -metalation of aniline derivatives

Organic Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3090-3092

  Houlden, Chris E ^a   Lloyd Jones, Guy C ^a   Booker Milburn, Kevin I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANILINE; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; UREA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

ANILINE COMPOUNDS; LITHIUM; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; STEREOISOMERISM; UREA;

EID: 77954126192     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol101102y     Document Type: Article

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