Mechanism of catalytic functionalization of primary C-H bonds using a silylation strategy

Organic Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 4066-4069

  Parija, Abhishek ^a   Sunoj, Raghavan B ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

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EID: 84882759279     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol401597t     Document Type: Article

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