Synthetic ventures inspired by biosynthetic hypotheses: the evolution of a method for the oxidative amidation of phenols

Tetrahedron

Volumn 62, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 5318-5337

  Ciufolini, Marco A ^a,b   Canesi, Sylvain ^b   Ousmer, Malika ^b   Braun, Norbert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; CYLINDRICINE C; FR 901483; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; NATURAL PRODUCT; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; TAN 1251C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMIDATION; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; EVOLUTION; HYPOTHESIS; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33646493497     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2006.01.111     Document Type: Article

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