Iron-catalyzed isomerizations of olefins

ChemCatChem

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1567-1571

  Mayer, Matthias ^a   Welther, Alice ^a   Jacobi von Wangelin, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross coupling; Domino reactions; Grignard reactions; Iron; Isomerization; Styrenes

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053616750     PISSN: 18673880     EISSN: 18673899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201100207     Document Type: Article

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