Direct Access to Substituted 4-CF3 β-Lactams at the C-3 Position
Monika Skibińska1,2, Marcin Kaźmierczak1,3, Thierry Milcent2
1Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
Frontiers in Chemistry
|August 27, 2019
Abstract:
Mono- and disubstituted 4-CF3 β-lactams at the C-3 position have been obtained stereoselectively under basic conditions. A wide range of function such as alcohols, alkyls, aryls, esters, and double and triple bonds have been introduced.
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