Cytosine analogues from substituted acetonitriles via Thorpe condensation

Organic Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 3333-3335

  Barkin, Julia L ^a   Faust Jr , Marcus D ^a   Trenkle, William C ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONITRILE DERIVATIVE; CYTOSINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; POLYMERIZATION; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; SYNTHESIS;

ACETONITRILES; ACYLATION; CYCLIZATION; CYTOSINE; ETHERS; ISOCYANATES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PYRIMIDINES;

EID: 0141856192     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol035223j     Document Type: Article

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