A simple, rapid and mild one pot synthesis of benzene ring acylated and demethylated analogues of harmine under solvent-free conditions

Molecules

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1584-1598

  Begum, Sabira ^a   Ali, Syed Nawazish ^a   Farhat, ^a   Hassan, Syed Imran ^a   Siddiqui, Bina S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Acylharmine; Demethylation; Friedel crafts acylation; Harmine; Solvent free reactions; carboline

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949124580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules1301584     Document Type: Article

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