A facile and scalable synthesis of qinghaosu (artemisinin)

Tetrahedron

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1112-1114

  Chen, Hui Jun ^a   Han, Wei Bo ^a   Hao, Hong Dong ^a   Wu, Yikang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Antimalarial; Ene reaction; Peroxide; Ring closing; Singlet oxygen

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISINIC ACID; ARTEMISININ; DIHYDRO QINGHAO ACID; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; QINAGHAO ACID; SINGLET OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84871637203     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: 14645416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2012.11.056     Document Type: Article

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