Metal Carbenes in Organic Synthesis.pdf

Florencio Zaragoza Dorwald
Metal Carbenes
anic Synthesis
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Dr. Florencio Zaragoza Dorwald
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Foreword
In the period between the discovery in the late 1950s that copper catalyzed the
addition of pounds to olefins to yield cyclopropanes and the recent
introduction of olefin metathesis into the synthesis of fine chemicals, a wide
variety of ani