An approach to 3,6-disubstituted 2,5-dioxybenzoquinones via two sequential Suzuki couplings. Three-step synthesis of leucomelone

Organic Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 589-592

  Gan, Xianwen ^a   Jiang, Wei ^b   Wang, Wei ^b,c   Hu, Lihong ^a,c  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOQUINONE DERIVATIVE; BORONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CATECHOL DERIVATIVE; LEUCOMELONE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

BENZOQUINONES; BORONIC ACIDS; CATALYSIS; CATECHOLS; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 60849126145     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol802645f     Document Type: Article

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