R. A. Aitken

Research interests

Publications

• The X-ray Structures of Sulfones

  Journal of Chemical Crystallography · 2009 · 10.1007/s10870-009-9643-8

• Thermal Rearrangement of Indolyl Oxime Esters to Pyridoindoles

  The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 2008 · 10.1021/jo801751a

• Cation-directed syntheses of novel zeolite-like metalloaluminophosphates STA-6 and STA-7 in the presence of azamacrocycle templates

  Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions · 2000 · 10.1039/a909249h

• Synthesis of a novel microporous magnesioaluminophosphate, STA-6, containing an unbound azamacrocycle †

  Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions · 1999 · 10.1039/a907259d

• Tandem Radical Cyclisation in the Flash Vacuum Pyrolysis of 2-Methoxyphenyl and 2-Methylthiophenyl Substituted Phosphorus Ylides

  Synlett · 1995 · 10.1055/s-1995-4860

• Flash vacuum pyrolysis of stabilised phosphorus ylides. Part 1. Preparation of aliphatic and terminal alkynes

  Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1 · 1994 · 10.1039/p19940001281

• Flash vacuum pyrolysis of stabilised phosphorus ylides. Part 5. Selective extrusion of PH 3 PO from β,γ,β′-trioxo ylides to give diacylalkynes

  Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1 · 1994 · 10.1039/p19940002467

• Catalytic asymmetric ring-opening of bridged tricyclic anhydrides

  Tetrahedron Asymmetry · 1990 · 10.1016/s0957-4166(00)80538-8

• Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of highly functionalised compounds with six contiguous stereocentres

  Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications · 1988 · 10.1039/c39880000632

• Asymmetric synthesis of (-)-steganone. Further application of chiral biaryl syntheses

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1987 · 10.1021/ja00252a022

• An asymmetric synthesis of chiral 4,4-disubstituted cyclohexenones in high enantiomeric purity

  The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 1986 · 10.1021/jo00360a065

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