Application of Organosuperbases to Total Synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 211-250

  Nagasawa, Kazuo ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aldol reaction; Carbon carbon bond forming reactions; Deprotection; Heteroatom conjugate addition; Isomerization; Michael reaction; Organosuperbase application to total synthesis; Pericyclic reaction; Wittig reaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889378743     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470740859.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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