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Robert A. Woodruff

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Publications

7

Citations

264

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7

Active since

1970

Affiliations

Massachusetts Institute of Technology(Current)

Robert A. Woodruff is an author at Massachusetts Institute of Technology specializing in organic chemistry, engineering, and chemistry.

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Organic ChemistryChemistryEngineeringPharmacologyMaterial ScienceChemical EngineeringBiomolecular EngineeringBiochemistryNatural SciencesChemical Kinetics

Publications per year

1970–1977

7

Publications

7

Synthesis of esters of acid-unstable alcohols by means of n-butyllithium

Edwin M. Kaiser, Robert A. Woodruff · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 1970 · 77 citations

Acid-unstable Alcohols, Chemical Measurement, Engineering +14

Halomethyl-metal compounds. LXV. Generation of fluorocarboalkoxycarbenes via the organomercury route

Dietmar Seyferth, Robert A. Woodruff · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 1973 · 44 citations

Halogenation, Chemical Engineering, Halomethyl-metal Compounds +11

gem-Dichloroallyllithium: A seemingly ambident nucleophile

Dietmar Seyferth, Gerald J. Murphy, Robert A. Woodruff · Journal of Organometallic Chemistry · 1974 · 36 citations

Engineering, Ambident Nucleophile, Organic Chemistry +2

Addition of gem-dichloroallyllithium to aldehydes and ketones. Unprecendented ambident character of an allylic metal reagent governed by substrate electronic factors

Dietmar Seyferth, Gerald J. Murphy, Robert A. Woodruff · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1974 · 35 citations

Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Cross-coupling Reaction +12

The reaction of gem-dichloroallyllithium with halides of silicon, germanium, tin and mercury, and with triphenylborane. Equilibrium vs. kinetic control of regioselectivity

Dietmar Seyferth, Gerald J. Murphy, Robert A. Woodruff · Journal of Organometallic Chemistry · 1977 · 30 citations

Materials Science, Halogenation, Engineering +6

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