Forming all-carbon quaternary stereogenic centres in acyclic systems from alkynes

Nature

Volumn 490, Issue 7421, 2012, Pages 522-526

  Minko, Yury ^a   Pasco, Morgane ^a   Lercher, Lukas ^a   Botoshansky, Mark ^a   Marek, Ilan ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYCLIC NUCLEOSIDE; ALKYNE; CARBON;

CHEMISTRY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXIDATION; TRANSFORMATION;

ALDOL REACTION; ARTICLE; ENANTIOMER; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUATERNARY (PERIOD); STEREOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84867806262     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11569     Document Type: Article

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