Regiocontrol in MnIII-mediated oxidative heterobicyclizations: access to the core skeletons of oroidin dimers

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 45, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 4345-4348

  Tan, Xianghui ^a   Chen, Chuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascade reactions; Natural products; Radical reactions; Rearrangement; Synthetic methods

Indexed keywords

CASCADE REACTIONS; NATURAL PRODUCTS; REARRANGEMENTS; SYNTHETIC METHODS;

DIMERS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION; REACTION KINETICS;

ESTERS;

FREE RADICAL; MANGANESE; OROIDIN; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; DIMERIZATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

CYCLIZATION; DIMERIZATION; FREE RADICALS; MANGANESE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PYRROLES;

EID: 33746288746     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200601208     Document Type: Article

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