Catalytic Enantioselective Construction of Quaternary Stereocenters: Assembly of Key Building Blocks for the Synthesis of Biologically Active Molecules

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 740-751

  Liu, Yiyang ^a   Han, Seo Jung ^a   Liu, Wen Bo ^a   Stoltz, Brian M ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOLE DERIVATIVE; KETONE; LACTAM; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; OXINDOLE;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG DESIGN; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

CATALYSIS; DRUG DESIGN; INDOLES; KETONES; LACTAMS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 84925399817     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: 15204898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar5004658     Document Type: Article

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