A concise approach to a gelsemine core structure using an oxygen to carbon bridge swapping strategy

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 4747-4750

  Tchabanenko, Kirill ^a   Simpkins, Nigel S ^a   Male, Louise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; CARBON; GELSEMINE; OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ALKALOIDS; CARBON; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXYGEN;

EID: 58149163163     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol801835q     Document Type: Article

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