Stereospecific Synthesis of Alkenes by Eliminative Cross-Coupling of Enantioenriched sp3-Hybridized Carbenoids

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 55, Issue 40, 2016, Pages 12285-12289

  Wu, Zhenhua ^a   Sun, Xun ^a   Potter, Kristin ^a   Cao, Yang ^a   Zakharov, Lev N ^a   Blakemore, Paul R ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alkenes; carbenoids; metalate rearrangements; organometallic reagents; stereoablation

Indexed keywords

ORGANOMETALLICS;

CARBENOIDS; ELECTROPHILIC SUBSTITUTIONS; METALATE REARRANGEMENTS; ORGANOMETALLIC REAGENT; STEREOABLATION; STEREOSPECIFIC SYNTHESIS; SUBSTITUENT EFFECT; TRISUBSTITUTED ALKENES;

OLEFINS;

EID: 84990195235     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201606641     Document Type: Article

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