Thiyl radical induced isomerisations of maleate esters provide a convenient route to fumarates and furanones

Tetrahedron

Volumn 55, Issue 30, 1999, Pages 9341-9346

  Harrowven, David C ^a   Hannam, Joanne C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alkenes; Cyclisation; Isomerisations; Lactones; Radicals and radical reactions; Sulfur chemistry

Indexed keywords

FUMARIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FURANONE DERIVATIVE; HEXANE; MALEIC ACID DERIVATIVE; RADICAL; THIYL RADICAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ISOMERISM; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033597973     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4020(99)00496-2     Document Type: Article

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