A multicomponent carba-Betti strategy to alkylidene heterodimers-total synthesis and structure-activity relationships of arzanol

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 4, 2012, Pages 772-779

  Minassi, Alberto ^a   Cicione, Lavinia ^a   Koeberle, Andreas ^b   Bauer, Julia ^b   Laufer, Stefan ^b   Werz, Oliver ^c   Appendino, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Betti reaction; Drug discovery; Medicinal chemistry; Multicomponent reactions; Natural products; Polyphenols; Synthetic methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856140123     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: 10990690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201101193     Document Type: Article

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