A general and efficient entry to asymmetric tetrazines for click chemistry applications

Heterocyclic Communications

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 171-177

  Wang, Danzhu ^a   Chen, Weixuan ^a,b   Zheng, Yueqin ^a   Dai, Chaofeng ^a   Wang, Lifang ^a   Wang, Binghe ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric; Click chemistry; Electron withdrawing; Tetrazine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881659690     PISSN: 07930283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hc-2013-0072     Document Type: Article

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