Acetoacetanilides as masked isocyanates: Facile and efficient synthesis of unsymmetrically substituted ureas

Organic Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 4220-4223

  Wei, Ying ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Lin, Shaoxia ^a   Ding, Hongqian ^a   Liang, Fushun ^a   Zhao, Baozhong ^a  

^a NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETANILIDE DERIVATIVE; ACETOACETANILIDE; ISOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PROLINE; UREA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

ACETANILIDES; ISOCYANATES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROLINE; STEREOISOMERISM; UREA;

EID: 77957148007     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol101474f     Document Type: Article

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