Novel route to 2-trifluoromethylated benzofurans

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 716-732

  Zhou, Hua ^a,b   Niu, Jia Jia ^a,b   Xu, Jing Wei ^a   Hu, Shao Jing ^c  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c The Institute for Diabetes Discovery   (United States)

Author keywords

Iodocyclization; o Alkynylphenols; Phenyl acetates; Trifluoromethylbenzofurans

Indexed keywords

2 (TRIFLUOROMETHYL)BENZOFURAN; 3 IODOBENZOFURAN; ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DRUG SYNTHESIS;

EID: 61849131081     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910802431099     Document Type: Article

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