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Lewis or Brønsted Acid-Mediated Transformations of VDCPs

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Lewis or Brønsted acid-mediated intramolecular rearrangement of VDCPs, and the reactions of VDCPs with acetals, aldehydes, ketones, imines, activated alkenes, nitriles, acyl chlorides, and alcohols are described in this chapter.

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    Lixiong Shao & Jianmei Lu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai, 200032, People’s Republic of China

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Shao, L., Lu, J., Shi, M. (2012). Lewis or Brønsted Acid-Mediated Transformations of VDCPs. In: Chemical Transformations of Vinylidenecyclopropanes. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27573-9_2

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