Regioselectivity in intermolecular Pauson-Khand reactions of dissymmetric fluorinated alkynes

Jean-Claude Kizirian1, Nuria Aiguabella, Albert Pesquer

  • 1Unitat de Recerca en Síntesi Asimètrica (URSA-PCB), Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) and Departament de Química Orgànica, Universitat de Barcelona, c/Baldiri Reixac, 10, E-0 8028 Barcelona, Spain. jean-claude.kizirian@univ-tours.fr

Organic Letters
|November 19, 2010
PubMed

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