An unexpected multi-component one-pot cascade reaction to access furanobenzodihydropyran-fused polycyclic

Jiaomei Guo1, Hongjie Miao1, Yang Zhao1

  • 1Institute of Functional Organic Molecular Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China. wangqilin@henu.edu.cn buzhanwei@henu.edu.cn.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 2, 2019
PubMed

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