New insight into the ring contraction of 2′-benzyloxyflavanones

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 991-996

  Németh, István ^a   Gulácsi, Katalin ^a   Antus, Sándor ^a,b   Kéki, Sándor ^a   Zsuga, Miklós ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

2 3 dihydrobenzo b furans; 2 benzyloxyflavanones; 2 benzyloxyisoflavones; Aryl migration; Ring contraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 50549095792     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0600101114     Document Type: Article

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