Facile synthesis of polycyclic fluorene derivatives via a palladium-catalyzed coupling, propargyl-allenyl isomerization and schmittel cyclization sequence

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Volumn 351, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 2833-2838

  Shen, Ruwei ^a   Chen, Linzhu ^a   Huang, Xian ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Allenes; Fluorenes; Schmittel cyclization; Sequential reactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149092662     PISSN: 16154150     EISSN: 15213897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.200900600     Document Type: Article

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