A serendipitous discovery: Nickel catalyst for the cycloaddition of diynes with unactivated nitriles

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 50, Issue 45, 2011, Pages 10694-10698

  Kumar, Puneet ^a   Prescher, Simon ^a   Louie, Janis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

alkynes; cycloaddition; heterocycles; nickel; synthetic methods

Indexed keywords

1 ,5-CYCLOOCTADIENE; ALKYNES; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; HETEROCYCLES; NICKEL CATALYST; SERENDIPITOUS DISCOVERY; SYNTHETIC METHODS; XANTPHOS;

ACETYLENE; CYANIDES;

CATALYSTS;

ALKYNE DERIVATIVE; NICKEL; NITRILE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION;

CATALYSIS; CYCLIZATION; DIYNES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NICKEL; NITRILES;

EID: 80155214328     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201104475     Document Type: Article

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