Phosphine-catalyzed β′-umpolung addition of nucleophiles to activated α-alkyl allenes

Organic Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2586-2589

  Martin, Tioga J ^a   Vakhshori, Venus G ^a   Tran, Yang S ^a   Kwon, Ohyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENE; PHOSPHINE; PHOSPHINE DERIVATIVE;

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

ALKENES; CATALYSIS; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOSPHINES; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 79956155927     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol200697m     Document Type: Article

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