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Preparation and Reactivity of a Triphosphenium Bromide Salt: A Convenient and Stable Source of Phosphorus(I)
Published on: November 22, 2016
Chiral tetraaminophosphonium salt-mediated asymmetric direct Henry reaction
Daisuke Uraguchi1, Sawako Sakaki, Takashi Ooi
1Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|September 21, 2007
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