Upjohn 290 INDEX

According to the Science Citation Index, reference [3] was cited 180 times in the period in between the years 1980 and 1984, and the reaction was used as the key step in almost a hundred "asymmetric syntheses". The method is not only of academic interest, but has also found application in industry and the Upjohn company uses it at the multikilogram scale in a reactor of more than 2000 L [4]. 

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