Unique reactivity of Grignard reagents towards cyclopropenylcarboxylates- highly selective carbon-carbon bond cleavage

Chemical Science

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 811-814

  Liu, Yu ^a   Ma, Shengming ^a,b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENYL; CARBOCYCLES; CARBON ATOMS; CARBON-CARBON BOND CLEAVAGE; ELECTROPHILES; GRIGNARD REAGENT; MALONATES; SELECTIVE REACTIONS; STEREO-SELECTIVE; SUBSTITUTED CARBONS; TERTIARY ALCOHOLS;

CARBOXYLATION; ESTERS;

STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 79955590379     PISSN: 20416520     EISSN: 20416539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0sc00584c     Document Type: Article

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