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Two Unprecedented Multicomponent Reactions Involving N-Heterocyclic Carbenes, Activated Acetylenes, and Aldehydes

Vijay Nair, S. Bindu, Eringathodi Suresh

Organic Letters · 2005 · 77 citations · 25 references

Concepts

Natural SciencesChemistryOrganic ChemistryCross-coupling ReactionsHeterocyclic ChemistryHeterocyclic CompoundsOrganic SynthesisReaction MechanismsRetrosynthetic AnalysisHeterocyclic ReactivityMulticomponent Reaction Chemistry

Abstract

[reaction: see text] Two unprecedented multicomponent reactions of N-heterocyclic carbenes involving activated acetylenes and aldehydes are described.

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