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Improved synthesis of the two-photon caging group 3-nitro-2-ethyldibenzofuran and its application to a caged
Hrvoje Lusic1, Rajendra Uprety, Alexander Deiters
1Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA.
Organic Letters
|February 2, 2010
Abstract:
A new and efficient route to the recently reported 3-nitro-2-ethyldibenzofuran caging group was developed. Furthermore, its installation on a thymidine phosphoramidite is described. This caging group is efficiently removed through light-irradiation at 365 nm.

