Comparing and taming the reactivity of HWE and Wittig reagents with cyclic hemiacetals

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 52, Issue 40, 2011, Pages 5153-5156

  Carrillo, Jokin ^a   Costa, Anna M ^a   Sidera, Mireia ^a   Vilarrasa, Jaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Lactols; Oxa Michael cyclisation; Wittig and HWE reactions

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXY 2 METHYLPENTANAL; ACETAL DERIVATIVE; CARBOXYL GROUP; MORPHOLINE AMIDE PHOSPHORANE; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORANE DERIVATIVE; REAGENT; TETRAHYDROFURAN DERIVATIVE; TRIFLUOROETHANOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYCLIZATION; HORNER WADSWORTH EMMONS REACTION; ISOMER; REACTION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WITTIG REACTION;

EID: 80052324265     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: 18733581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2011.07.121     Document Type: Article

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