Water-promoted, silver-phosphine complex-catalyzed stereoselective cyclization of 2-(1-Hydroxy-3-arylprop-2-ynyl)phenols leading to a highly efficient approach to aurones

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 41, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 3228-3236

  Lin, Mingdeng ^a   Yu, Min ^a   Han, Chengyan ^a   Li, Chao Jun ^b   Yao, Xiaoquan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Catalyzed cyclization; silver phosphine complex; syntheses of aurones; water promoted

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; AURONE; FLUORIDE; PHENOL; PHOSPHINE; SILVER; TOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CYCLIZATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 79960628856     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397911.2010.517613     Document Type: Article

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