The Neber route to substituted indoles

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1058-1059

  Taber, Douglass F ^a   Tian, Weiwei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; KETONE DERIVATIVE; OXIME;

ARTICLE; BECKMANN REARRANGEMENT; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CYCLIZATION; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; NEBER REACTION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REACTION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

INDOLES; KETONES; OXIMES;

EID: 31944441649     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja058026j     Document Type: Article

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