Physico-Chemical Properties of Organosuperbases

Superbases for Organic Synthesis: Guanidines, Amidines, Phosphazenes and Related Organocatalysts

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 9-48

  Margetic, Davor ^a  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Amidines; Guanidines; Guanidinophosphazenes; Phosphorus containing superbases Verkade's; Physico chemical properties of organosuperbases; Polycyclic proton sponges; Proton sponges

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889373752     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470740859.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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