Potassium hydride in paraffin: A useful base for Williamson ether synthesis

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 51, Issue 27, 2010, Pages 3545-3546

  Huang, Haihong ^a   Nelson, Christopher G ^a   Taber, Douglass F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE; PARAFFIN; POTASSIUM DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM HYDRIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; SYNTHESIS; WILLIAMSON REACTION;

EID: 77954242538     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2010.04.129     Document Type: Article

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