Total synthesis of (-)-colchicine via a Rh-triggered cycloaddition cascade

Organic Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 4317-4320

  Graening, Timm ^a   Bette, Virginie ^a   Neudörfl, Jörg ^a   Lex, Johann ^a   Schmalz, Hans Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; RHODIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; SYNTHESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

COLCHICINE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYCLIZATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; RHODIUM;

EID: 26444437208     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol051316k     Document Type: Article

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