A mild, one-pot synthesis of 4-quinolones via sequential Pd-catalyzed amidation and base-promoted cyclization

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2609-2612

  Huang, Jinkun ^a   Chen, Ying ^a   King, Anthony O ^a   Dilmeghani, Mina ^a   Larsen, Robert D ^a   Faul, Margaret M ^a  

^a AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALLADIUM; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; SYNTHESIS;

CATALYSIS; CYCLIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PALLADIUM; QUINOLONES;

EID: 48849087952     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol800837z     Document Type: Article

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