Enantioselective silyl protection of alcohols promoted by a combination of chiral and achiral Lewis basic catalysts

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 768-776

  Manville, Nathan ^a   Alite, Hekla ^a   Haeffner, Fredrik ^a   Hoveyda, Amir H ^a   Snapper, Marc L ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; LEWIS ACID; LEWIS BASE; SILICON; TETRAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; STEREOISOMERISM; ARTICLE;

ALCOHOLS; CATALYSIS; KINETICS; LEWIS ACIDS; LEWIS BASES; SILICON; STEREOISOMERISM; TETRAZOLES;

EID: 84883195409     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1708     Document Type: Article

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