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Phenanthroline Synthesis

Posted by naturalproductman on July 3, 2009

Etsuji Okada and co-workers from Kobe University has recently published in Tetrahedron on a unique transformation that involves an aromatic ring synthesis from a keto-propargylic aniline to make 1,10-phenanthrolines.

1,10-phenanthroline

Tetrahedron paper

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