Preparation and purification of desethylamiodarone hydrochloride

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 3371-3376

  Lucas, Anthony N ^a   Tanol, Mehmet ^a   McIntosh, Michelle P ^a   Rajewski, Roger A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Amiodarone; Chloroethyl chloroformate; Dealkylation; Desethylamiodarone; Metabolite

Indexed keywords

1 CHLOROETHYL CHLOROFORMATE; AMIODARONE; DESETHYLAMIODARONE HYDROCHLORIDE; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33751097730     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910600941406     Document Type: Article

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