Borane catalysed ring opening and closing cascades of furans leading to silicon functionalized synthetic intermediates

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Hazra, Chinmoy K ^a,b   Gandhamsetty, Narasimhulu ^a,b   Park, Sehoon ^a,b   Chang, Sukbok ^a,b  

^a Institute for Basic Science   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; BORANE DERIVATIVE; FURAN DERIVATIVE; SILICON;

BIOMASS; CATALYSIS; FURAN; INORGANIC COMPOUND; NONRENEWABLE RESOURCE; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RING OPENING; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85000645659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13431     Document Type: Article

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