... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. Tetrahedron Letters. Volume 51, Issue 30, 28 July 2010, Pages 3927–3930. ... online 25 May 2010. Abstract. A guanidine-based chiral organocatalyst was successfully applied to the Michael addition of diphenyliminoacetate to pyridyl vinyl ketone as a key reaction for the construction of the nicotine system. ... For a review of syntheses of nicotine, its derivatives, see: Tetrahedron, 63 (2007), pp. 8065–8082. ...
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