Fragment Coupling with Tertiary Radicals Generated by Visible-Light Photocatalysis

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1578-1586

  Jamison, Christopher R ^a   Overman, Larry E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENE; CLERODANE DERIVATIVE; FREE RADICAL;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

ALKENES; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, SYNTHETIC; DITERPENES, CLERODANE; FREE RADICALS; LIGHT; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 84982282551     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: 15204898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.6b00284     Document Type: Article

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