A new twist on cooperative catalysis

Science

Volumn 340, Issue 6136, 2013, Pages 1052-1053

  Schindler, Corinna S ^a   Jacobsen, Eric N ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; AMINE; CYANIDE;

CATALYSIS; CATALYST; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ALDOL REACTION; ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; CATALYSIS; CHIRALITY; CONJUGATION; CYCLOPROPANATION; DIELS ALDER REACTION; DUAL CATALYSIS; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SYNERGISTIC CATALYSIS;

EID: 84878376430     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1238769     Document Type: Short Survey

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