Application of a robustness screen for the evaluation of synthetic organic methodology

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1348-1353

  Collins, Karl D ^a   Rühling, Andreas ^a   Glorius, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; NATURAL PRODUCT; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; BATCH PROCESS; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; DRUG SCREENING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; PROCEDURES; SYNTHESIS;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, SYNTHETIC; INDOLES; KINETICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

EID: 84901857595     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.076     Document Type: Article

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