Facile and effective synthesis of spirocycloalkanones

Letters in Organic Chemistry

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 531-535

  Zoidis, Grigoris ^a   Kolocouris, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anti influenza A; Base induced cyclization; LDA; NMR; Spiro adamantane cyclopentanone and cyclohexanone; Spirocycloalkanones

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053010923     PISSN: 15701786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157017811797249452     Document Type: Article

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