Approach to tetrodotoxin via the oxidative amidation of a phenol

Organic Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 4736-4739

  Mendelsohn, Brian A ^a   Ciufolini, Marco A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; NITRILE; PHENOL; TETRODOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; STEREOISOMERISM;

AMIDES; NITRILES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENOL; STEREOISOMERISM; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 70349906431     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol901914u     Document Type: Article

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