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Design, Synthesis, and Photochemical Properties of Clickable Caged Compounds
Published on: October 15, 2019
Synthesis of molecular nanocages by click chemistry
Julia Morales-Sanfrutos1, Mariano Ortega-Muñoz, Javier Lopez-Jaramillo
1Instituto de Biotecnología, Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus Fuentenueva s/n, Universidad de Granada, Granada E-18071, Spain.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry
|September 5, 2008
Abstract:
The covalent synthesis of nanosized cage compounds is easily performed in high yields using "click chemistry" methodology through the Cu(I)-catalyzed ligation of adequate polyalkyne and polyazide derivatives using (EtO)3P x CuI as catalyst.
