Unprecedented vilsmeier formylation: Expedient syntheses of the cruciferous phytoalexins sinalexin and brassilexin and discovery of a new heteroaromatic ring system

Organic Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1213-1216

  Pedras, M Soledad C ^a   Zaharia, Irina L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BRASSILEXIN; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; PHYTOALEXINS; PLANT EXTRACT; SINALEXIN; TERPENE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; THIOKETONE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

AMMONIA; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; FORMIC ACIDS; INDOLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; TERPENES; THIAZOLES; THIONES;

EID: 0035912316     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol015691y     Document Type: Article

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