Photochemical aryl radical cyclizations to give (E)-3-ylideneoxindoles

Molecules

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 15891-15899

  Gurry, Michael ^a   Allart Simon, Ingrid ^b   McArdle, Patrick ^a   Gérard, Stéphane ^b   Sapi, Janos ^b   Aldabbagh, Fawaz ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

Author keywords

Cyclization; Heterocycle; Oxindole; UV light

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL; PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG; SYNTHESIS;

CYCLIZATION; FREE RADICALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDANTS, PHOTOCHEMICAL;

EID: 84907495449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules191015891     Document Type: Article

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