Epoxides and Oxetanes

Heterocycles in Natural Product Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 63-95

  Das, Biswanath ^a   Damodar, Kongara ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Epoxides; Heterocycles; Natural products; Oxetanes; Strained heterocycles; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875044241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527634880.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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