A pyrazole to furan rearrangement. Thermolysis of 5-azido-4- formylpyrazoles

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2814-2820

  Svenstrup, Niels ^a   Simonsen, Klaus B ^a   Thorup, Niels ^b   Brodersen, Jørgen ^a   Dehaen, Wim ^c   Becher, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 AZIDO 4 FORMYLPYRAZOLE DERIVATIVE; FURAN DERIVATIVE; PYRAZOLE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACYLATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DRUG MECHANISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; STOICHIOMETRY; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033574492     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo9822075     Document Type: Article

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