Acid-mediated highly regioselective oxidation of substituted furans: A simple and direct entry to substituted butenolides

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Volumn , Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1575-1578

  Ceñal, Juan P ^a   Carreras, Carlos R ^a   Tonn, Carlos E ^a   Padrón, Juan I ^b   Ramírez, Miguel A ^b   Díaz, David D ^b   García Tellado, Fernando ^c   Martín, Victor S ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Furans; Oxidation; Substituted butenolides

Indexed keywords

BUTENOLIDE; FURAN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; DRUG HYDROLYSIS; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; OXIDATION; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 21544434653     PISSN: 09365214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-869865     Document Type: Article

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