Strained to the limit: When a cyclobutyl moiety becomes a thermodynamic sink in a protolytic ring-opening of photogenerated oxetanes

Organic Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 3398-3401

  Valiulin, Roman A ^a   Arisco, Teresa M ^a   Kutateladze, Andrei G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

2 CYCLOHEXENONE; 2-CYCLOHEXEN-1-ONE; CHLOROHYDRIN DERIVATIVE; CYCLOHEXANONE DERIVATIVE; FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CATALYSIS; CHLOROHYDRINS; CYCLOHEXANONES; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS WITH 4 OR MORE RINGS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; STEREOISOMERISM; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77955165928     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol101297b     Document Type: Article

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