The interplay of invention, observation, and discovery in the development of lewis base activation of lewis acids for catalytic enantioselective synthesis

Topics in Organometallic Chemistry

Volumn 44, Issue , 2013, Pages 55-89

  Beutner, Gregory L ^a   Denmark, Scott E ^b  

^a BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aldolization; Catalysis; Chiral phosphoramide; Lewis acid; Lewis base; Organosilicon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870624012     PISSN: 14366002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3418-2012-43     Document Type: Article

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