Organic Letters
Letter
Sakthivel, S.; Ali, M. A.; Paul, R.; Punniyamurthy, T. Synlett 2009, 20,
3323−3327. (i) Li, J.; Zhang, Y.; Jiang, Y.; Ma, D. Tetrahedron Lett.
2012, 53, 3981−3983.
Catherine Lyall (NMR Spectroscopy, University of Bath), and
Dr. Dave Carbery and Christina Gulacsy (Chiral HPLC,
University of Bath). We would also like to thank Dr. Paul
Murray (Visiting Industrial Fellow at University of Bath) for
helpful advice in experimental design.
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(14) No racemization was observed under the reaction conditions.
For full details, see Supporting Information.
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