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A practical chiral bicyclic thioglycolate lactam auxiliary for stereoselective quaternary carbon formation

Azélie Arpin1, Jeffrey M Manthorpe, James L Gleason

  • 1Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2K6.

Organic Letters
|March 28, 2006
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