Diastereoselective ruthenium-catalyzed michael addition of indoles to hormone steroids: An efficient route to new indole derivatives

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1677-1684

  Tabatabaeian, Khalil ^a   Mamaghani, Manouchehr ^a   Mahmoodi, Nosratollah ^a   Khorshidi, Alireza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUILAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hormone steroids; Indoles; Michael addition; Ruthenium

Indexed keywords

CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; RUTHENIUM; STEROID;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONJUGATION; DIASTEREOISOMER; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; MICHAEL ADDITION; QUANTUM YIELD; REACTION ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 77952087826     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910903161678     Document Type: Article

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