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Alkyl zinc addition onto alkene

Posted by naturalproductman on July 11, 2011

Matthew Sigman and colleague at the University of Utah have reported in JACS on an anti-Markovnikov addition of an alkyl group onto an alkene using an alkyl zinc reagent.

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JACS paper

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