A novel palladium-catalyzed dicarbonylation process leading to coumarins

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 756-759

  Gabriele, Bartolo ^a   Mancuso, Raffaella ^a   Salerno, Giuseppe ^a   Plastina, Pierluigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUMARINS; DICARBONYLATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

CATALYSIS; DERIVATIVES; PALLADIUM; SOLVENTS;

ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; PALLADIUM; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; SOLVENT; CARBON MONOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARBONYLATION; CATALYSIS; DICARBONYLATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REACTION OPTIMIZATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

CARBON MONOXIDE; CATALYSIS; COUMARINS; CYCLIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PALLADIUM; PHENOLS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 40949129064     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo702243m     Document Type: Article

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