Simple and convenient synthesis of 4-unsubstituted-3-(3-oxoalkyl) isocoumarins

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1569-1578

  Butin, Alexander V ^a   Dmitriev, Artem S ^a   Uchuskin, Maxim G ^a   Abaev, Vladimir T ^b   Trushkov, Igor V ^c  

^a KUBAN STATE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b NORTH OSSETIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Furans; Isocoumarins; Ring closure; Ring opening

Indexed keywords

2 (2 CARBOXYBENZYL)FURAN DERIVATIVE; BENZOIC ACID; FURAN DERIVATIVE; ISOCOUMARIN DERIVATIVE; PHTHALALDEHYDIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CYCLIZATION; FUNGUS; LICHEN; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 42549112978     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910801929382     Document Type: Article

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