Studies toward the Biomimetic Synthesis of Tropolone Natural Products via a Hetero Diels-Alder Reaction

Organic Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1933-1935

  Baldwin, Jack E ^a   Mayweg, Alexander V W ^a   Neumann, Karin ^a   Pritchard, Gareth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG DERIVATIVE; TROPOLONE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FUNGUS; SYNTHESIS;

FUNGI; TROPOLONE;

EID: 0033576438     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol991067y     Document Type: Article

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