Atroposelective Total Synthesis of the Fourfold ortho-Substituted Naphthyltetrahydroisoquinoline Biaryl

Eric D Slack1, Raina Seupel2, Donald H Aue1

  • 1Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, 93106, USA.

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