An Unusual Oxidative Ring Transformation of Purine to Imidazo[1,5-c] imidazole

Organic Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 4265-4268

  Poje, Nevenka ^a   Poje, Mirko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMIDAZO[1,5 C]IMIDAZOLE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; PURINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0344065772     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol035429k     Document Type: Article

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