Synthesis of lurlene, the sex pheromone of the green flagellate Chlamydomonas allensworthii

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1821-1824

  Mori, Kenji ^a   Takanashi, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LURLENE; SEX PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FLAGELLATE; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0029880161     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-4039(96)00127-X     Document Type: Article

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