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1Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. wallach@mail.biu.ac.il
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
|August 18, 2010
Abstract:
Over the past century, various synthetic approaches have been suggested to the most famous dye of antiquity, Tyrian purple (6,6'-dibromoindigo). These synthetic routes have been exhaustively surveyed and critically evaluated from the perspective of convenience, cost, safety and yield.

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