An unexpected synthesis of dihydrophenazines en route to benzimidazolium salts

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Volumn 354, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1356-1362

  Borguet, Yannick ^a   Zaragoza, Guillermo ^b   Demonceau, Albert ^a   Delaude, Lionel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

electrocyclic reactions; ligand design; nitrogen heterocycles; oxidation; sigmatropic rearrangement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860740483     PISSN: 16154150     EISSN: 16154169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201100890     Document Type: Article

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