Intramolecular cyclization of aromatic imines: An approach to tetrahydrochromano[4,3-b]quinolines

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 2309-2312

  Jones, Wyeth ^a   Kiselyov, Alexander S ^a  

^a AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Acridines; Cycloadditions; Imines

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC AMINE; QUINOLINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYCLIZATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0034175538     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(00)00156-8     Document Type: Article

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