β-Chloroaldehydes from Trapping Zirconium Enolates Produced in Asymmetric 1,4-Additions

Jiao Yu Joseph Wang1, Thomas Palacin1, Stephen P Fletcher1

  • 1Chemistry Research Laboratory , University of Oxford , 12 Mansfield Road , Oxford OX1 3TA , U.K.

Organic Letters
|January 1, 2019
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