Forming tertiary organolithiums and organocuprates from nitrile precursors and their bimolecular reactions with carbon electrophiles to form quaternary carbon stereocenters

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 51, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 9581-9586

  Schnermann, Martin J ^a   Untiedt, Nicholas L ^a   Jiménez Osés, Gonzalo ^b   Houk, Kendall N ^b   Overman, Larry E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

diastereoselectivity; fragment coupling; fused ring systems; lithiation; terpenoids

Indexed keywords

DIASTEREO-SELECTIVITY; FRAGMENT-COUPLING; FUSED-RING SYSTEM; LITHIATION; TERPENOIDS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBON; COPPER COMPOUNDS; STEREOSELECTIVITY;

CYANIDES;

CARBON; COPPER; LITHIUM; NITRILE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CARBON; COPPER; LITHIUM; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITRILES; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; QUANTUM THEORY; STEREOISOMERISM; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84866434544     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201205001     Document Type: Article

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