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Lei Zhang1, Mingyue Zheng, Fei Zhao
1CAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences , 555 Zuchongzhi Road, Shanghai 201203, China.
ACS Combinatorial Science
|February 15, 2014
Abstract:
A library of privileged-substructure-based, heterocyclic compounds was constructed by a sequence of Ugi four-component reactions incorporating the indole motif and microwave-assisted cyclizations in branched pathways. Cheminformatic analysis confirmed that the library exhibited a high degree of structural diversity and good drug-likeness.
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