Highly selective formation of [4+2] and [4+3] cycloadducts of tetrahydroindenes generated in situ from a (1-alkynyl)carbene tungsten complex by the metalla-1,3,5-hexatriene route

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 23, 2001, Pages 5084-5093

  Wu, He Ping ^a   Aumann, Rudolf ^a   Fröhlich, Roland ^a   Wibbeling, Birgit ^a   Kataeva, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbene complexes; Chromium; Cycloadditions; Diene ligands; Triene ligands; Tungsten

Indexed keywords

AMINES; COMPLEXATION; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

STEREOSELECTIVITY;

TUNGSTEN;

CARBENOID; CHROMIUM DERIVATIVE; INDENE DERIVATIVE; TETRAHYDROINDENE DERIVATIVE; TUNGSTEN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYCLOADDITION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; POLYMERIZATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 85047694985     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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