Stereoselective synthesis of alexine stereoisomers from (S)- pyroglutamic acid

Tetrahedron

Volumn 54, Issue 31, 1998, Pages 8985-8998

  Ikota, Nobuo ^a   Nakagawa, Hidehiko ^a   Ohno, Shigeru ^a   Noguchi, Keiichi ^b   Okuyama, Kenji ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

1 EPIALEXINE; 1,7 DIEPIALEXINE; 1,7,7A TRIEPIALEXINE; 1,7A DIEPIALEXINE; PYROGLUTAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0032581633     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4020(98)00542-0     Document Type: Article

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