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An expedient synthesis of homophthalimides
Béatrice Quiclet-Sire1, Samir Z Zard
1Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique associé au CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau, France.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 15, 2002
Abstract:
The six-membered heterocyclic subunit of homophthalimides can be obtained by a direct, hitherto unprecedented, radical cyclisation onto an aromatic ring starting from a xanthate precursor.