@article{ac42086947c94a6cab2da82c53ec7a47,
title = "Iridium-catalyzed enantioselective formal [4+2] cycloaddition of biphenylene and alkynes for the construction of axial chirality",
abstract = "Chiral iridium complex catalyzed a formal [4+2] cycloaddition of biphenylene with disubstituted alkynes, which was initiated by carbon-carbon bond cleavage. Axially chiral 9,10-disubstituted phenanthrenes were enantiomerically obtained.",
keywords = "Alkynes, Asymmetric catalysis, Cycloadditions, Iridium, Rhodium",
author = "Takanori Shibata and Go Nishizawa and Kohei Endo",
year = "2008",
month = mar,
day = "18",
doi = "10.1055/s-2008-1032112",
language = "English",
pages = "765--768",
journal = "Synlett",
issn = "0936-5214",
publisher = "Georg Thieme Verlag",
number = "5",
}