Highly enantioselective Pd-catalyzed allylic alkylation of indoles using sulfur-MOP ligand

Organic Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 932-935

  Hoshi, Takashi ^a   Sasaki, Koji ^a   Sato, Shun ^a   Ishii, Yuichi ^a   Suzuki, Toshio ^a   Hagiwara, Hisahiro ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 79952160314     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol102977b     Document Type: Article

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