Enantioselective organocatalysis in microreactors: Continuous flow synthesis of a (S)-pregabalin precursor and (S)-warfarin

Symmetry

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1395-1409

  Porta, Riccardo ^a   Benaglia, Maurizio ^a   Coccia, Francesca ^a   Rossi, Sergio ^a   Puglisi, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active pharmaceutical ingredients; Asymmetric synthesis; Flow chemistry; Microreactors; Organocatalysis; PEEK tubing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942240221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20738994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/sym7031395     Document Type: Article

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