A rapid and efficient route to benzazole heterocycles

Nature Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1731-1736

  Carpenter, Richard D ^a,b   Kurth, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; ARYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; BENZAZOLE DERIVATIVE; CYANAMIDE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; ISOTHIOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NUCLEOPHILE; THIOUREA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CYCLIZATION; GREEN CHEMISTRY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; REACTION TIME;

ANILINE COMPOUNDS; AZOLES; BENZENE DERIVATIVES; ISOTHIOCYANATES; MICROWAVES;

EID: 78049410391     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2010.132     Document Type: Article

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