Diastereoselective nucleophilic addition to aldehydes with polar α- And α,β-substituents

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Volumn 353, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 2022-2036

  Borg, Tessie ^a   Danielsson, Jakob ^a   Mohiti, Maziar ^a   Restorp, Per ^a   Somfai, Peter ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

aldol reaction; allylation; diastereoselectivity; induction model

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052019661     PISSN: 16154150     EISSN: 16154169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201100173     Document Type: Article

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