Tandem nucleophilic addition-intramolecular aza-michael reaction: Facile synthesis of chiral fluorinated isoindolines

Organic Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 5494-5497

  Fustero, Santos ^a,b   Moscardó, Javier ^a   Sánchez Roselló, María ^a   Rodríguez, Elsa ^a   Barrio, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; INDOLINE; ISOINDOLE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HALOGENATION; HYDROLYSIS; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

AZA COMPOUNDS; HALOGENATION; HYDROLYSIS; INDOLES; ISOINDOLES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 78650352857     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol102341n     Document Type: Article

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