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Microwave-assisted Intramolecular Dehydrogenative Diels-Alder Reactions for the Synthesis of Functionalized Naphthalenes/Solvatochromic Dyes
Published on: April 1, 2013
Catch and release microwave mediated synthesis of cyanine dyes
Maria Lopalco1, Eftychia N Koini, Jin Ku Cho
1School of Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH93JJ, United Kingdom.
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
|February 20, 2009
Abstract:
Unsymmetrical functionalised cyanine dyes, covering the whole colour range, were readily synthesised (in 100 mg amounts) by a combination of microwave and solid-phase methodologies.

