Pictet-Spengler reaction: Is carbonyl the best choice? A highly diastereoselective alternative approach to trans-1,3-disubstituted tetrahydro-β-carbolines

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 4977-4980

  Singh, Kamaljit ^a   Deb, Prasant K ^a  

^a GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BETA CARBOLINE DERIVATIVE; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0034686348     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(00)00751-6     Document Type: Article

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