An efficient one-step synthesis of piperidin-2-yl and pyrrolidin-2-yl flavonoid alkaloids through phenolic Mannich reactions

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 35, 2011, Pages 7076-7079

  Nguyen, Thanh Binh ^a   Wang, Qian ^a,b   Guéritte, Françoise ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Imines; Mannich reaction; Natural products; Regioselectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455192782     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: 10990690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201101312     Document Type: Article

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