Cis-diastereoselectivity in pictet-spengler reactions of L-tryptophan and electronic circular dichroism studies

Chirality

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 789-795

  Rashid, Naghmana ^a   Alam, Samina ^b   Hasan, Mashooda ^a,b   Khan, Naeema ^b,c   Khan, Khalid M ^d   Duddeck, Helmut ^e   Pescitelli, Gennaro ^f   Kenéz, Ágnes ^g   Antus, Sándor ^g   Kurtán, Tibor ^g  

^a ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c FATIMA JINNAH WOMEN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

^e LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

chiral synthesis; electronic circular dichroism; solid state CD; stereoselective synthesis; TDDFT; tetrahydro b carbolines

Indexed keywords

TRYPTOLINE DERIVATIVE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYCLIZATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIASTEREOISOMER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID STATE; SYNTHESIS;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYCLIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84867057758     PISSN: 08990042     EISSN: 1520636X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chir.22070     Document Type: Article

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