R. V. Hoffman, in Advances in Oxygenated Processes, Vol. 3 (Ed.: A. L. Baumstark), Jai Press, Inc., Greenwich, CT, 1991.

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Synthetic transformations using arenesulfonyloxy groups, first as electrophiles, then as leaving groups.

R. V. Hoffman, Tetrahedron, 1991, 47, 1109.

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FUNCTIONAL GROUPS/OXIDATION/ALKENES AND ALKYNES/DIHYDROPYRAN/PEROXIDES/ArSO2-O-O-SO2Ar/REARRANGEMENT/RING EXPANSION/4 TO 5, 5 TO 6, 6 TO 7/LACTAMS/IMINE/PHENOL/S



Isolation and X-ray Structure of Chloroarenium Cations as Wheland Intermediates in Electrophilic Aromatic Chlorination.

R. V. Hoffman, Chemtracts: Organic Chemistry, 1999, 12, 817.

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Chloroarenium cations Wheland intermediate Aromatics/chlorination



Chemical and Spectroscopic Studies Related to the Lewis Acidity of Lithium Perchlorate in Diethyl Ether.

R. V. Hoffman, Chemtracts: Organic Chemistry, 1999, 12, 846.

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Lewis acids/lithium perchlorate



Catalysts, anticatalysts, and receptors for unactivated phosphate diesters in water.

R. V. Hoffman, Chemtracts: Organic Chemistry, 2001, 14, 500.

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review phosphate diester catalyst anticatalyst receptor



Asymmetric synthesis of chiral organofluorine compounds: Use of nonracemic fluoroidodoacetic acid as a practical electrophile and its application to the synthesis of monofluoro hydroxyethylene dipeptide isosteres within a novel series of HIV protease inhibitors.

R. V. Hoffman, Chemtracts: Organic Chemistry, 2001, 14, 805.

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Base-promoted, imine-forming 1,2-elimination reactions.

R. V. Hoffman, R. Bartsch, B. R. Cho, Acc. Chem. Res., 1989, 22, 211.

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PHYSICAL ORGANIC/ELIMINATION



The steric course of SE reactions of unstabilized .alpha.-aminoorganolithiums: distinguishing between SET and polar mechanisms.

R. V. Hoffman, R. E. Gawley, E. Low, Q. Zhang, R. Harris, Chemtracts: Organic Chemistry, 2001, 14, 625.

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