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Structure and Mechanism in Cinchona Alkaloid Chemistry: Overturning a 50-Year-Old Misconception
1Institut für Organische Chemie der Universität, Schneiderberg 1B, D-30167 Hannover (Germany).
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|October 3, 1999
Abstract:
Long-standing errors of the supposedly established literature, including textbooks and data bases have been corrected: The structure of the hetero-cinchona bases in the crystal and in solution (see scheme) and the mechanism of their formation from quinine and quinidine have been elucidated.