Flow synthesis of fluorinated α-amino acids

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 2015, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 3036-3039

  Vukelic, Stella ^a   Ushakov, Dmitry B ^b   Gilmore, Kerry ^b   Koksch, Beate ^a   Seeberger, Peter H ^a,b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amines; Amino acids; Flow; Fluorine; Photochemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928814014     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: 10990690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201500300     Document Type: Article

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