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Organocatalysed asymmetric beta-amination and multicomponent syn-selective diamination of alpha,beta-unsaturated

Hao Jiang1, Johanne B Nielsen, Martin Nielsen

  • 1Danish National Research Foundation: Center for Catalysis, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.

Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|August 19, 2007
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