A highly efficient asymmetric synthesis of vernakalant

Organic Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2716-2719

  Limanto, John ^a   Ashley, Eric R ^a   Yin, Jingjun ^a   Beutner, Gregory L ^a   Grau, Brendan T ^a   Kassim, Amude M ^a   Kim, Mary M ^a   Klapars, Artis ^a   Liu, Zhijian ^a   Strotman, Hallena R ^a   Truppo, Matthew D ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE; ANISOLE DERIVATIVE; CHLORIDE; CYCLOHEXANE; CYCLOHEXANE DERIVATIVE; PYRROLIDINE DERIVATIVE; VERNAKALANT; ZINC CHLORIDE; ZINC DERIVATIVE;

AMINATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

AMINATION; AMINES; ANISOLES; CATALYSIS; CHLORIDES; CYCLOHEXANES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PYRROLIDINES; STEREOISOMERISM; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84900859109     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol501002a     Document Type: Article

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