Metal-free transfer hydrogenation of olefins via dehydrocoupling catalysis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 10917-10921

  Pérez, Manuel ^a   Caputo, Christopher B ^a   Dobrovetsky, Roman ^a   Stephan, Douglas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fluorophosphonium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904985328     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1407484111     Document Type: Article

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