Gold or no gold: One-pot synthesis of tetrahydrobenz[b]azepin-4-ones from tertiary n-(but-3-ynyl)anilines

Organic Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1225-1228

  Cui, Li ^a   Zhang, Guozhu ^a   Peng, Yu ^a   Zhang, Liming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYNE; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; GOLD;

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

ALKYNES; ANILINE COMPOUNDS; BENZODIAZEPINES; CATALYSIS; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; GOLD; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 64049105412     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol900027h     Document Type: Article

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