Highly efficient continuous flow reactions using singlet oxygen as a "Green" reagent

Organic Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 5008-5011

  Lévesque, François ^a,b   Seeberger, Peter H ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SINGLET OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SINGLET OXYGEN;

EID: 80054728059     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol2017643     Document Type: Article

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