Synthesis of a complete series of C-4 fluorinated Phe-Gly mimetics

Tetrahedron

Volumn 55, Issue 48, 1999, Pages 13819-13830

  Berts, Wei ^a   Luthman, Kristina ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aziridines; Fluorine and compounds; Halogenation; Peptide mimetics

Indexed keywords

AZIRIDINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORINE DERIVATIVE; GLYCINE; PHENYLALANINE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYCLIZATION; HALOGENATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0033607552     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4020(99)00865-0     Document Type: Article

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