Synthesis of carbohelicenes and derivatives by 'carbenoid couplings'

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1309-1312

  Gingras, Marc ^a   Dubois, Fabien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND; CARBENOID; CARBOHELICENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COUPLING FACTOR; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DERIVATIZATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033547931     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(98)02670-7     Document Type: Article

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