Asymmetric Addition of Diethylzinc to Diphenylphosphinoyl-Imines
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Supporting Information
The spectroscopic and analytical data for the compounds
shown in Tables 1, 2 and 3 and the detailed description of
experimental procedures are included in supporting infor-
mation for this article, which is also available from the
author.
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We thank the State Key Project of Basic Research (Project
973) (No. G2000048007), Shanghai Municipal Committee of
Science and Technology (04 JC14083), and the National Nat-
ural Science Foundation of China for financial support
(20472096, 203900502 and 20272069).
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