Pictet-spengler reaction revisited: Engineering of tetherd biheterocycles into annulated polyheterocycles

Current Organic Synthesis

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 357-376

  Kundu, Bijoy ^a,b   Agarwal, Piyush K ^a   Sharma, Sudhir K ^a   Sawant, Devesh ^a   Mandadapu, Anil K ^a   Saifuddin, Mohammad ^a   Gupta, Sahaj ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b JUBILANT BIOSYS LTD   (India)

Author keywords

6 endo cyclization; 7 endo cyclization; Pictet Spengler reaction; Polyheterocycles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862091633     PISSN: 15701794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157017912801270559     Document Type: Review

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