Design and scale-up of diels-alder reactions for the practical synthesis of 5-phenylbicyclo[2.2.2]oct-5-en-2-one

Organic Process Research and Development

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1420-1427

  Funel, Jacques Alexis ^a   Schmidt, Gunther ^a   Abele, Stefan ^a  

^a ACTELION PHARMACEUTICALS LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELS-ALDER REACTION; DIENOPHILES; PROCESS SAFETY; SCALE-UP; SYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; TRIMETHYLSILANE;

CHROMATOGRAPHY; DISTILLATION;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 81555213073     PISSN: 10836160     EISSN: 1520586X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/op200139r     Document Type: Article

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