Synthesis of a drug-like focused library of trisubstituted pyrrolidines using integrated flow chemistry and batch methods

ACS Combinatorial Science

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 405-413

  Baumann, Marcus ^a   Baxendale, Ian R ^a   Kuratli, Christoph ^b   Ley, Steven V ^a   Martin, Rainer E ^b   Schneider, Josef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRROLIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; DRUG DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; SYNTHESIS;

COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; DRUG DESIGN; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PYRROLIDINES; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES;

EID: 79960247989     PISSN: 21568952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/co2000357     Document Type: Article

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