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Efficient Synthesis of All-Carbon Quaternary Centers via the Conjugate Addition of Functionalized Monoorganozinc Bromides
Published on: May 26, 2019
Asymmetric conjugate addition reactions of allyl- and crotylstannanes
David R Williams1, Richard J Mullins, Nathan A Miller
1Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405-7102, USA. williamd@indiana.edu
Abstract:
The conjugate addition reactions of allylic stannanes have been investigated utilizing nonracemic N-enoyl-4-phenyl-1,3-oxazolidinones with Lewis acid precomplexation.
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