Recent Advances in the Metal-Catalyzed Stereoselective Synthesis of Biologically Active Molecules

Catalytic Methods in Asymmetric Synthesis: Advanced Materials, Techniques, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 625-670

  Ferrer, Catalina ^a   Verdaguer, Xavier ^a   Riera, Antoni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asymmetric cycloadditions, and Diels Alder reaction (DA) asymmetric DA reactions, Lewis acids accelerating cycloaddition; Enantioselective oxidations alkene oxidations, hydrogenations and cyclopropanations; Recent advances, metal catalyzed stereoselective synthesis asymmetric organometallic reactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886041418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118087992.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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