Synthesis of medium-sized cyclic amines by selective ring cleavage of sulfonylated bicyclic amines

Organic Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 2957-2960

  Iradier, Fátima ^a   Gómez Arrayás, Ramón ^a   Carretero, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE; FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; OTONECINE; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID; SULFONE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

AMINES; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS; SULFONES;

EID: 0035922363     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0162163     Document Type: Article

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