Distortion-accelerated cycloadditions and strain-release-promoted cycloreversions in the organocatalytic carbonyl-olefin metathesis

Chemical Science

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 471-475

  Hong, Xin ^a   Liang, Yong ^a   Griffith, Allison K ^b   Lambert, Tristan H ^b   Houk, K N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLING FACTORS; CYCLOADDITIONS; CYCLOPROPENES; ORGANOCATALYTIC; STRAIN RELEASE;

CHEMISTRY;

OLEFINS;

EID: 84891453808     PISSN: 20416520     EISSN: 20416539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3sc52882k     Document Type: Article

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