In-flight epimerization of a bis-Tröger base

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2401-2404

  Révész, Ágnes ^a   Schröder, Detlef ^a   Rokob, Tibor András ^a   Havlík, Martin ^b   Dolenský, Bohumil ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Epimerization; Ion mobility mass spectrometry; Sodium complexes; Tr ger bases

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; ANTI ISOMERS; DIELS-ALDER; EPIMERIZATION; ION-MOBILITY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ION-MOBILITY MEASUREMENTS; PROTONATED; RING OPENING;

ISOMERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

IONS;

EID: 79952058894     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201007162     Document Type: Article

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