Haruhisa Kikuchi and co-workers from Tohoku University have reported in Organic Letters on a chromanone that stimulates the immune response.

Posted by naturalproductman on August 10, 2011
Haruhisa Kikuchi and co-workers from Tohoku University have reported in Organic Letters on a chromanone that stimulates the immune response.

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Posted by naturalproductman on June 19, 2011
Vijay Nair and co-workers from CSIR have reported in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry on a NHC catalyzed cascade reaction converting 2H-chromene-3-carboxaldehydes to 3-methyl-2H-chromen-2-ones.
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Posted by naturalproductman on January 20, 2010
Bor-Cherng Hong and co-workers at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan have reported in Organic Letters on a route that involves two back to back organocatalytic reactions to make a dihydropyranyl ring and a cyclohexenyl ring systems.

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